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Rakamaz Jewish Cemetery

Cemetery Information

Country
Hungary
Region
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
District
Nyíregyházi
Settlement
Rakamaz
Site address
Approachable from the end of Árpád Street along a dirt road.
GPS coordinates
48.1322, 21.47138
Perimeter length
217 metres
Is the cemetery demolished
yes
Type and height of existing fence
There is a natural uphill barrier.
Preservation condition
Demolished Jewish cemetery that has not been built over
General site condition
The cemetery is in the middle of an agricultural site, but has not been built over. The vegetation is so dense that it was impossible to get in. Clearing could potentially reveal hidden gravestones.
Number of existing gravestones
0
Date of oldest tombstone
N/A
Date of newest tombstone
N/A
Urgency of erecting a fence
High
Land ownership
Private
Preserved construction on site
No
Drone surveys
No

Historical overview

The Jewish cemetery of Rakamaz was established as early as 1870, since it appears on the cadastral map of that year. The cemetery was demolished at an unknown time.

The first Jews settled in Rakamaz in the second half of the 18th century. The Jewish community was established in 1840 and numbered 113 people. Later by 1930, the Jewish population increased to 170. In 1885, the Rabbi of the Orthodox community in Rakamaz was the Rabbi of Vencsellő. By the time of the deportations in 1944, the community no longer had a rabbi, though they did employ a shochet (butcher) and a caretaker for the community’s synagogue. In April 1944, the Jews were confined to the synagogue, and at the beginning of May, they were taken by cart to the nearby town of Tokaj, after which they were sent to the Sátoraljaújhely Ghetto before being deported to Auschwitz.

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