Obj. ID: 42031
Jewish Funerary Art Jewish cemetery in Csenger, Hungary
According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the cemetery (its perimeter is 376 m) is surrounded by a 2 m high concrete fence, There are 410 gravestones, dated from 1823 to 1942, as well as 22 foundations. There were also 3 gravestones in closed ohels and 6 in open ohels.
This is a site in an outstandingly good condition with many facilities and electrical lighting. the majority of the gravestones are well-preserved; a few are reconstructed or completed with a new plaque. The Ohels may also be newly erected.
There are 2 closed ohels, a beit tahara with an old coffin and a memorial of those murdered in 1944.
There are several ohels/tziyunim for local communal rabbis (av beit din) and their wives:
Moshe b. Eliezer Spitz ha-Levi
Yonatan Binyamin b. Moshe Aryeh Estreich
Asher Anshil b. Shmuel ha-Levi
Miriam Yetl
Meir Yehuda, Chaya Reizl and their daughter Shindl (three stones in one ohel)
as well as others.
