Csernus Lukács - Triff Zsigmond: The Cemeteries of Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

Detail of a monument erected to the memory of Jewish victims deported from the provinces

Forrai, composer and conductor, together with his wife, an actress. In the next part of the sections, the following are buried: Lipót Hermann, painter, Pál Setényi, physicist, and Mózes Rubinyi, linguist and literary historian; József Róna, sculptor, Vilmos Csaba Perlrott, painter, Béla Zsolt, writer, Béla Reinitz, composer, and the brothers Andor Kellér, writer, and Dezső Kellér, stand-up comedian, buried under monuments by Imre Varga; Klára Fehér, writer, Gyula Gózon, actor, under a ruined monument by Imre Varga; Henrik Marczali, historian; Gusztáv Magyar-Mannheimer, painter; Ernő Szép, writer and poet; Miksa Szabolcsi and his son, Lajos, both journalists and champions of Jewish emancipation; Bernét Alexander, philosopher; Izsák Perlmutter, painter; Adolf Agai, writer and magazine editor; Gyula Tornai, painter; József Gábor, opera singer; and István Szomaházi, writer.

Outstanding scholars and artists lie buried in other sections, too, such as Hugó Scheiber, painter, in Section 11 and Manó Rákos, sculptor, in Section 17; architect Alfréd Hajós, the first Hungarian Olympic champion, is buried under the family tombstone of the Blockners at the corner of Section 5/d.

To the left and to the right of the main entrance, along the fence, are several remarkable vaults from .the turn of the century. They represent the work of prominent architects and industrial designers, thus it is worth walking along them and taking a careful look at them, even if they are often fragmented or hidden under creepers.

Entering the cemetery, on the right, you can immedi49