Panyola Jewish Cemetery

Cemetery Information

Country
Hungary
Region
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
District
Fehérgyarmati
Settlement
Panyola
Site address
The Jewish section is located within the municipal cemetery, on Mezővég Street.
GPS coordinates
48.04038, 22.40313
Perimeter length
170 metres
Is the cemetery demolished
no
Type and height of existing fence
No fence
Preservation condition
Jewish section
General site condition
The Jewish section is looked after and the grass is mown.
Number of existing gravestones
19 gravestones: 16 intact & 3 broken or pedestal bases.
Date of oldest tombstone
1841
Date of newest tombstone
1932
Urgency of erecting a fence
Fence is not needed
Land ownership
Property of local community
Preserved construction on site
No
Drone surveys
Yes

Historical overview

The Jewish cemetery of Panyola was established as early as 1841, since the oldest tombstone found in the cemetery dates to that year. The latest tombstone was erected in 1932. The cemetery is part of the municipal cemetery.

In 1840, 23 Jews lived in the village. In 1880, of the town’s total population of 1,211, 54 were Jews. Jewish merchants in Panyola traded nuts and plums grown in the village. Over the course of the subsequent decades, the Jewish population was as follows: 65 in 1910, 60 in 1920, 42 in 1930, and 30 in 1941. The Jews of Panyola were later kept in Fehérgyarmat and then deported from the Mátészalka Ghetto on May 31, 1944. There used to be a shtiebel (prayer room) in the village.