Hungarian Holocaust Memorials Database

Memorial · Pre-Trianon Hungary · The Holocaust

Volunteers from the JewishGen Hungarian SIG created this database in loving memory of the Holocaust victims in the areas of pre-Trianon Hungary. The database lists more than 23,000 martyrs whose names are recorded on Holocaust memorials in 37 communities in present-day Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.

Let the words on the memorials speak for those lost to us . . .

REMEMBER

Our dear brethren who gave their lives in sanctification of the Divine Name. Shed a tear, say a prayer for the dear mothers and fathers, for their innocent children, for the families extinguished. Only YOU, who have survived the great destruction, can say Kaddish for them. May their dear memory be blessed.

— Kisvárda, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, Hungary

For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me; my children are desolate. Lamentations 1:16. “In flame they covered your sanctuary — they humbled the house of your name to the ground” Psalm 74:17

— Nyiregyhaza, Hungary

“Let us remember our dear innocent children of Eger, our dear blood, who were dragged away on June 7th, 1944 and died a martyrs' death”

— Eger, Heves, Hungary

In foreign earth turning to dust or as smoke rising from crematoria, the memory of our heroic dead lives on in our hearts. We will never forget you! To the victims of the war against humanity, to our innocent members, we erected this eternal memorial.

— Miskolc, Hungary

Holocaust memorials generally only list names, titles, and descriptions of family members. The following are translations of some of the descriptions used on these memorials:

• És neje — and his wife
• És Férje — and her husband
• És gyermeke — and children
• És Csaladja (also és cs.) — and family
• És fia — and son
• És leánya — and daughter
• Özv. — abbreviation for özvegy, which means widow
• a celá rodina — and family (in Slovak)

In Hungarian, the suffix “né” is added to the husband's first name to indicate Mrs., e.g. “Grünwald Lajosné” means “Mrs. Lajos Grünwald”.

Some occupations are also listed on memorials, including:

• Alelnök — Vice President
• Elnök — President
• Főrabbi — Head rabbi
• Gondnok — caretaker
• Kántor — Cantor
• Főkántor — Head cantor
• tanító — Instructor (man)
• tanítónő — Instructor (woman)

Further information on occupation names in Hungarian can be found in the Hungarian Occupations InfoFile.

The fields displayed in this database are:

The database currently contains 23,657 records, as follows. Town links open an image of the memorial where available.

* Memorials for towns identified with an asterisk (*) are located in Miskolc, Hungary.

We offer our sincere thanks to the transcribers and validators, as without their donation of time and effort this database would not exist. We also thank Jacob Michel, Erica Wiesel, and Judy Petersen for their help with Hebrew translations and Dr. Peter Hidas, Tom Klein and Pete Grossinger for help with Hungarian translations. We also thank the support team from JewishGen: Warren Blatt, Michael Tobias and Joyce Field.

The Hungarian Holocaust Memorials Database can be searched via either the JewishGen Hungary Database or JewishGen's Holocaust Database interfaces.

In addition to the usual search of surnames and towns, you can use the “Global Text Search” of all fields to find all entries for a particular county (megye) or given name.

Last updated May 2016.
To report corrections or to volunteer transcriptions and photos of other memorials, contact Larry Kohn or the JewishGen Hungarian SIG.