Volunteers from theJewishGen Hungarian SIGcreated this database in loving memory of the Holocaust victims in theareas of pre-Trianon Hungary.  The database lists more than23,000 martyrs whose names are recorded on Holocaust memorials in37 communities in present-day Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia,and Ukraine.

Let the words on the memorials speak for those lost to us . . .

REMEMBER

Our dear brethren who gave their lives in
sanctification of the Divine Name.
Shed a tear, say a prayer for the dear mothers and
fathers, for their innocent children, for the families extinguished.
Only YOU, who have survived the great destruction, can
say Kaddish for them.
May their dear memory be blessed.

— Kisvárda, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, Hungary

For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water,because the comforter that should relieve
my soul is far from me; my children are desolate. Lamentations 1:16.
"In flame they covered your sanctuary -- they humbled the house ofyour name to the ground" Psalm 74:17

— Nyiregyhaza, Hungary

"Let us remember our dear innocent children of Eger, our dear blood, who were dragged away on June 7th, 1944 and died a martyrs' death" — Eger, Heves, Hungary

In foreign earth turning to dust or as smoke rising from crematoria The memory of our heroic dead lives on in our hearts. We will never forget you! To the victims of the war against humanity To our innocent members We erected this eternal memorial. — Miskolc, Hungary

Information on the Memorials:

Holocaust memorials generally only list names, titles, and descriptionsof family members.  The following are translations of some of thedescriptions used on these memorials:

1. És neje — and his wife
2. És Férje — and her husband
3. És gyermeke — and children
4. És Csaladja (also és cs.) — and family
5. És fia — and son
6. És leánya — and daughter
7. Özv. — abbreviation for özvegy, which means widow
8. a celá rodina — and family (in Slovak)

In Hungarian, the suffix "né" is added to the husband’s first nameto indicate Mrs., e.g. "Grünwald Lajosné" means "Mrs. Lajos Grünwald". 

Some occupations are also listed on memorials, including:

1. Alelnòk — Vice President
2. Elnòk — President
3. Förabbi — Head rabbi
4. Gondnok — caretaker
5. Kántor — Cantor
6. Fökántor — Head cantor
7. tanító — Instructor (man)
8. tanítónő — Instructor (woman)

Further information on occupation names in Hungarian can be found intheHungarianOccupations InfoFile.

Creation of the Database:

The Project Coordinator for this database was originally Carol Robinson,and is now Larry Kohn. The database was assembled by volunteers from theJewishGen Hungarian SIG (H-SIG), serving astranscribers and validators.  Often the names were transcribed fromphotographs of the memorials taken during visits to ancestral towns. The transcribers and validators approached this task with respect andmade every effort to enter all names on the memorials accurately. Please report any errors or volunteer to provide transcriptions and/orphotos of other memorials to Larry Kohn atlhkohn@live.com.

Click on the links below to see images of the memorials (if available).

Database Format:

The fields displayed in this database are:

• Town, Megye, Country: The name of the town of residence during World War II; the Hungarianmegye (county), and country containing the town pre-Trianon.
• Name: Surname and Given Name(s) of the individual.
• Memorial: Information about the memorial and its location.
• Image: If available, we have linked an image of the name on the memorial.
• Memorial Town, Megye, Country: The current name of the town where the memorial is located; the currentmegye (county) of Hungarian towns and the current region of Slovakian towns or their Romanian or Ukrainian equivalent; the current country of the town where the memorial is located.
• Comments: We used this field to list other available information that the transcriber chose to transcribe, for example titles or names before marriage.

Transcription Rules:

Names from the Holocaust memorials were entered exactly as they appearedon the original memorial.  If the name was abbreviated, it wastranscribed exactly as abbreviated.  No changes were made in thespellings of the name, either.  Some but not all transcriptions includeddiacritical marks (the little accent marks used above certain letters).

Records in the database:

The database currently contains 23,657 records, as follows:

* Memorials for towns identified with an asterisk (*) are locatedin Miskolc, Hungary.

Acknowledgements:

We offer our sincere thanks to the transcribers and validators, as withouttheir donation of time and effort this database would not exist. We also thank Jacob Michel, Erica Wiesel, and Judy Petersen for their helpwith Hebrew translations and Dr. Peter Hidas, Tom Klein and Pete Grossingerfor help with Hungarian translations.  We also thank the support teamfrom JewishGen: Warren Blatt, Michael Tobias and Joyce Field.

Notes on Searching the Database:

The Hungarian Holocaust Memorials Database can be searched via eithertheJewishGen Hungary Database orJewishGen's Holocaust Database interfaces.

In addition to the usual search of surnames and towns, you can usethe "Global Text Search" of all fields to find all entries for aparticular county (megye) or given name.