Gegeny Old Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery Information
Country
Hungary
Region
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
District
Kemecsei
Settlement
Gégény
Site address
In the municipal cemetery. The entrance is on Rákóczi ot Petőfi Street.
GPS coordinates
48.13882, 21.94947
Perimeter length
210 metres
Is the cemetery demolished
yes
Type and height of existing fence
No fence.
Preservation condition
Demolished Jewish cemetery that has not been built over
General site condition
There are no traces of the Jewish cemetery. The other Jewish cemetery is in another part of the municipal cemetery.
Number of existing gravestones
No tombstones preserved
Date of oldest tombstone
N/A
Date of newest tombstone
N/A
Urgency of erecting a fence
High
Land ownership
Municipality
Preserved construction on site
No
Drone surveys
No
Historical overview
Two Jewish cemeteries appear to have existed in Gégény. The older Jewish cemetery was established as early as 1870, since it appears on the 1870 cadastral map. The cemetery was destroyed at an unknown time.
Jews were already living in Gégény by the early 19th century. In 1828, the Jewish population numbered 31 people, and 111 in 1911. Presumably before 1925, the community used a local house for prayer, after which they built a synagogue on Hunyadi Street. From 1941 young Jews were sent to do forced labour. In the spring of 1944, the German army in Hungary and Hungarian authorities set up and transported the Jews to the ghettos. Gégény’s Jews transported to the Kisvarda Ghetto, and from there to Auschwitz on May 25.
