Pap Jewish Cemetery

Cemetery Information

Country
Hungary
Region
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
District
Kisvárda
Settlement
Pap
Site address
The Jewish cemetery is located in the municipal cemetery, on Kossuth Street.
GPS coordinates
48.22251, 22.13833
Perimeter length
94 metres
Is the cemetery demolished
no
Type and height of existing fence
There is a concrete fence, around 2m high.
Preservation condition
Fenced and protected Jewish cemetery
General site condition
The site is in a very good condition. The grass is not mown, but the cemetery is generally well looked after.
Number of existing gravestones
15 gravestones: 13 intact and 2 fragments or pedestals.
Date of oldest tombstone
1900
Date of newest tombstone
1942
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 Pap was established as early as 1870, since it appears on the cadastral map of that year. This cemetery remained in operation until at least 1942 – the year in which the latest tombstone found in the cemetery was erected. The cemetery has been fenced.

Pap is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. There is no information regarding the first Jewish settlers of the village, however at the end of the 18th century, 8 Jewish people lived in the village (Sámuel Dávid and his relatives) on the estate of István Fülöp. In 1880, 33 people of the town’s total population of 891 were Jewish. The Jewish population later peaked at 76 people in 1910, after which the population began to decrease. By 1941, Jews merely accounted for 41 of the village’s total population of 1,459. The Jews of Pap were mainly merchants and cobblers, as well as land and distillery owners. The oldest families were the Kaufman, Kohn, Dicker, and Schmilovics families. At the beginning of the 20th century, prayer services were held in the house of Béni Kohn.

A local Jewish man, Bernát Frenkel, died in 1942 in forced labour service on a battlefield somewhere in Russia. The other members of the community were taken to the Kisvárda Ghetto in April 1944 and were deported to Auschwitz at the end of May. In 1949, there were only 2 Jews living in Pap, however they left the village in 1956.

Pap Jewish Cemetery
Pap Jewish Cemetery
Pap Jewish Cemetery
Pap Jewish Cemetery
Pap Jewish Cemetery
Pap Jewish Cemetery
Pap Jewish Cemetery
Pap Jewish Cemetery
Pap Jewish Cemetery
Pap Jewish Cemetery
Pap Jewish Cemetery
Pap Jewish Cemetery
Pap Jewish Cemetery