Tiszaadony Jewish Cemetery 2
Cemetery Information
Country
Hungary
Region
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
District
Vásárosnaményi
Settlement
Tiszaadony
Site address
In front of the municipal cemetery, on Rákóczi Street.
GPS coordinates
48.21983, 22.29479
Perimeter length
174 metres – the perimeter is approximate.
Is the cemetery demolished
no
Type and height of existing fence
No fence
Preservation condition
Unfenced Jewish cemetery
General site condition
The site is neglected and overgrown.
Number of existing gravestones
11 gravestones: 6 intact & 5 fragments or pedestal bases.
Date of oldest tombstone
1882
Date of newest tombstone
1932
Urgency of erecting a fence
High
Land ownership
Other
Preserved construction on site
No
Drone surveys
No
Historical overview
There were two Jewish cemeteries in Tiszaadony. This cemetery was established as early as 1882, since the oldest tombstone found in the cemetery dates to that year. The latest tombstone was erected in 1932. The cemetery has not been fenced
According to census data, 32 Jews lived in Tiszaadony in 1840 and 40 in 1880. In 1910 the Jewish population peaked at 87. In the following decades, the Jewish population decreased: 63 Jews lived in the village in 1920, 48 in 1930, and 47 in 1941. According to the Yad Vashem database, about 48 Jews from Tiszaadony were murdered in the Holocaust.
