Nyirparasznya Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery Information
Country
Hungary
Region
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
District
Mátészalkai
Settlement
Nyírparasznya
Site address
The Jewish cemetery is located in the woodland, next to the municipal cemetery, close to Rákóczi Street.
GPS coordinates
48.02825, 22.27616
Perimeter length
219 metres
Is the cemetery demolished
no
Type and height of existing fence
No fence
Preservation condition
Unfenced Jewish cemetery
General site condition
The site has been abandoned and neglected, many broken branches make the territory dangerous. The intact gravestones are located in the “back”, the eastern part of the cemetery.
Number of existing gravestones
31 gravestones: 20 intact & 11 fragments or pedestal bases.
Date of oldest tombstone
1855
Date of newest tombstone
1923
Urgency of erecting a fence
High
Land ownership
Municipality
Preserved construction on site
No
Drone surveys
Yes
Historical overview
The Jewish cemetery of Nyírparasznya was established as early as 1855, since the oldest tombstone found in the cemetery dates to that year. The latest tombstone was erected in 1923. The cemetery has not been fenced.
In 1840, Nyírparasznya already had 35 Jewish residents. In 1880, of the village’s total population of 634, 104 were Jews. Over the following decades, 58 Jews lived there in 1910, 50 in 1920, and 34 in 1930. In 1941, when the Nyírparasznya’s total population was 1,010, merely 36 Jews lived in the village. The Jews of Nyírparasznya were deported from the Mátészalka Ghetto on May 25, 1944.
