Nagyhodos Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery Information
Country
Hungary
Region
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
District
Fehérgyarmati
Settlement
Nagyhódos
Site address
The Jewish cemetery is on Fő Street. It is located in front of the municipal cemetery.
GPS coordinates
47.9617, 22.85129
Perimeter length
271 metres
Is the cemetery demolished
no
Type and height of existing fence
No fence
Preservation condition
Unfenced Jewish cemetery
General site condition
The cemetery is overgrown with trees.
Number of existing gravestones
15
Date of oldest tombstone
1904
Date of newest tombstone
1923
Urgency of erecting a fence
High
Land ownership
Private
Preserved construction on site
No
Drone surveys
Yes
Historical overview
The Jewish cemetery of Nagyhódos was established as early as 1896, since it appears on the cadastral map of that year. The latest tombstone found in the cemetery was erected in 1923. The cemetery has not been fenced.
The village of Nagyhódos had a total population of 438 in 1880, including 42 of whom were Jews. In the following decades, 28 Jews lived in the village in 1910, 35 in 1920, and 23 in 1930. In 1941, of the village’s population of 441, 28 people were Jews. In 1944, the Jews of Nagyhódos were deported from the Szatmárnémeti Ghetto and murdered.
