Berettyóújfalu at 47°13' N, 21°33' E, 22 miles S of Debrecen; 21 miles WNW of Oradea (Romania) is a town in Hajdú-Bihar county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary named after the river Berettyó. Jewish population: 811 (in 1890). .photo: the synagogue at Mártírok útja 3. in 1982 [February 2009]
UPDATE: The original entry says they are not maintained but this is untrue. The grass had been cut and the cemeteries have walls. Both gates were unlocked. Source: Michael Perl
Vágóhid Street Jewish cemetery. cemetery is not maintained. Owner is the city hall. [February 2009]
UPDATE: Vagohid utca is the newer cemetery and contains a small holocaust memorial. The gate was open. There is one ohel as well as a separate area for Cohanim. The men and women are not buried together. The pitiful part is that this cemetery has been pillaged and there are many visible bases where the stones have been taken. There are still many stones standing but a large percentage have disappeared at some point. Michael Perl visited in October 2019. Source: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Szabolcska Street Jewish cemetery: not maintained [February 2009]
UPDATE: Szabadka utca has a gate with a lock but the gate was tied with wire into the lock. One need only untwist the wire to get in. This is the older of the two cemeteries and is slightly closer to the center of town. This was the most pitiful cemetery I have visited. The cemetery has perhaps 30 stones of which 10 are lying under grass or mud and most of the area is empty. It is smaller than the one on Vagoghid u. but one can imagine that this would have been fairly full for a newer one to be opened. Today one can see that almost all the stones have been stolen or destroyed. There is a well known story of someone coming with a truck in the early 1990s and stealing many stones. There are a few very old stones left, with one legible one from 1824. There is one ohel that has been rebuilt on the site but it is unfinished and very poor quality construction. There are large dead branches and sections of trees lying about the property but the grass has been cut. Berettyoujfalu is a larger town and had a very old and sizable community so for one interested in family research, this was devastating to see. Michael Perl visited in October 2019. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.