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

Béla Bartók’s sepulchre

(his ashes were brought home from America in 1988)

were never realised. Walking over to Section 30, you can find there the grave of painter Gyula Rudnay and that of hunter and writer Kálmán Kittenberger. Behind Kittenber- ger’s portrait by Iván Szabó rest the victims executed in the wake of the show-trials, and then rehabilitated in 1956 to be finally re-buried in a long row here.

In Section 29 are several great family vaults and mausoleums representing different periods. The column rising at the corner of the section commemorates the Swiss- born Ferenc Cathry Szaléz, designer of the cogwheel railway. The bust at its top was made by the artist himself. Walking towards the south-eastern corner of the cemetery, you find four similar sections. In Section 39 a figurái relief by Alice G. Lux stands over the grave of György Losonczi and his wife Magda Rigó, both opera singers. Here also rests actor Oszkár Ascher. In Section 40, the grave of painter Vilmos Aba-IJouák is ornamented with one of his own mosaics depicting Jesus Christ. This is also the resting place of popular film actor Pál Jávor, who returned to Hungary after spending some years in America. Of the scientists buried in the cemetery, here lie Győző Zemplén and his daughter Jolán, both distinguished physicists. The names of the following famous persons buried in Section 41 should not be omitted: Jenő Huszka, composer of

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