Kozma Street Cemetery

Unusually for a Jewish cemetery, these include sculpted human figures and elaborate mausoleums in a variety of styles, most notably several mausoleums in the Art Nouveau or Jugendstil style.

Kozma Street Cemetery was opened in 1891 by the Neolog Jewish community of Budapest.

[1] In 2016, the remains of about 20 people, believed to be Jews who were among the thousands shot on the banks of the Danube River in 1944–1945 by the Hungarian Arrow Cross, and which were found during the renovation of a bridge in 2011, were brought to burial at the Kozma Street Cemetery.

[4] Built in the early 1900s, the turquoise-and-gold mausoleum features ceramics from the Zsolnay factory.

[5] The structure, which underwent extensive renovations between 1996 and 1998, is a magnificent example of Hungarian Secessionism and of Hungary’s Jewish funerary art.