Salgótarjáni Street Jewish Cemetery is a monument protected in its entirety.
Its site was separated from the neighbouring public cemetery after the first Jewish cemeteries in Pest were filled. The sole cemetery of Pest Jewry from its opening in 1874 until 1892, along with today’s Fiumei Road Cemetery, provides a complete picture of Hungary on its path to developing a middle class and living through a golden age, right up until the early 1920s.
Much of its unparalleled built heritage is provided by the mausoleums of the business elite arising during the Age of Dualism.
At the same time, the cemetery recalls the 20 th century tragedy of Hungary’s Jewry: for example, there is the mausoleum – ornamented with Jewish symbols and Hungarian motifs – of Vilmos Vázsonyi, the first Hungarian minister of Jewish origin, but there is also a memorial to the victims of the Budapest Ghetto, many of whom are buried here.