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Mikepercs Jewish Cemetery

Cemetery Information

Country
Hungary
Region
Hajdú-Bihar
District
Derecskei
Settlement
Mikepércs
Site address
The Jewish cemetery is located within the municipal cemetery. The entrance is along Sugár Street.
GPS coordinates
47.43945, 21.64212
Perimeter length
202 metres. Today’s perimeter is smaller than marked on the cadastral map.
Is the cemetery demolished
no
Type and height of existing fence
No fence
Preservation condition
Unfenced Jewish cemetery
General site condition
The Jewish cemetery is inside the municipal cemetery. According to the cadastral map it has been partially demolished. It is well maintained.
Number of existing gravestones
21
Date of oldest tombstone
1839
Date of newest tombstone
1902
Urgency of erecting a fence
High
Land ownership
Property of local community
Preserved construction on site
No
Drone surveys
No

Historical overview

The Jewish cemetery of Mikepércs was established as early as 1839, since the oldest tombstone found in the cemetery dates to that year. No tombstones later than 1902 were discovered in the cemetery, however the cemetery may have continued to operate in the following years. The cemetery has not been fenced.

In 1840, Jews accounted for 41 people of the total population in Mikepércs (1,844). 55 Jews lived in the village in 1910, 37 in 1920, and 29 in 1930. By 1941, Jews merely accounted for 21 people in the village (of the total population of 2,696). The shochet (butcher) and cantor was Immánuel Citron. The leader of the Jewish community was Ignác Jiss, who later died on the train to Auschwitz, at the age of 86. Only a few of the local Jews survived the Holocaust and returned to the village after the war. They soon sold their houses and moved away. A memorial was erected in honour of the local martyrs in the Jewish cemetery in Debrecen.

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