Jewish families that lived in Újfehértó and probably the surrounding communities used the Újfehértó Cemetery as the final resting place for their loved ones. The Orthodox cemetery is located on Kossuth Lajos utca (also called Dorogi utca), the street going from the center of Újfehértó to Hajdudorog. The Regi (old) cemetery is located on Tokaji utca, about two streets north of Kossuth utca.
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Translation: This is the old Ratzfert (Újfehértó) Citizens Cemetery. The very few survivors who returned after the big European Jewish disaster in 1944 found this cemetery desecrated and destroyed. They worked and cleaned the area and erected a fence in honor of their ancestors' graves. All this was sponsored by the honorable Tzvi KETENBAUM, may he live a long and good life, from America, who was born in Ratzfert. The memorial was installed in 1980.
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[ d. = died; notes and comments follow the images. ]
Isaiah KATZ ben Pinhas d. 25 Sh'vat 5687 (28 January 1927)
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Isaiah KATZ ben Pinhas d. 25 Sh'vat 5687 (28 January 1927)
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Yermiahu KATZ ben Yishayah haKohen d. 11 Tevet 5704 (7 January 1944)
[2]
Yermiahu KATZ ben Yishayah haKohen d. 11 Tevet 5704 (7 January 1944)
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Yitzhak ben Yishayah haKohen d. 20 of Adar I 5700 (29 February 1940)
[3]
Yitzhak ben Yishayah haKohen d. 20 of Adar I 5700 (29 February 1940)
[3]
Perl Toybe bat UNKNOWN d. illegible (illegible)
Perl Toybe bat UNKNOWN d. illegible (illegible)
Moshe ben Elchanan KUPFERSTEIN d. 23 Tishrei 5672 (15 October 1911)
Moshe ben Elchanan KUPFERSTEIN d. 23 Tishrei 5672 (15 October 1911)
Shmuel ben Akiva Dov haKohen d. 29 Tevet 5673 (8 January 1913)
Shmuel ben Akiva Dov haKohen d. 29 Tevet 5673 (8 January 1913)
Benjamin Kolonimus ben Tzadok STEIN z"l d. 17 Adar I 5673 (27 February 1913)
Benjamin Kolonimus ben Tzadok STEIN z"l d. 17 Adar I 5673 (27 February 1913)
Avraham ben Ja'acov haKohen KOMARMOI d. 21 Adar 5661 (12 March 1901)
[4]
Avraham ben Ja'acov haKohen KOMARMOI d. 21 Adar 5661 (12 March 1901)
[4]
Elchanan ben Moshe FELDMAN d. 22 Kislev 5646 (30 November 1885)
Elchanan ben Moshe FELDMAN d. 22 Kislev 5646 (30 November 1885)
Ze'ev ben Avraham z"l d. 14 Kislev 5655 (12 December 1894)
Ze'ev ben Avraham z"l d. 14 Kislev 5655 (12 December 1894)
Yitzchak Aizik ben Moshe haKohen z"l d. 25 illegible 5656 (1895 or 1896)
Yitzchak Aizik ben Moshe haKohen z"l d. 25 illegible 5656 (1895 or 1896)
The young man Moshe ben Shmuel Yitzchak d. 9 Elul 5653 (21 August 1893)
The young man Moshe ben Shmuel Yitzchak d. 9 Elul 5653 (21 August 1893)
Golde bat Aharon Michael Gavriel haKohen z"l d. 10 Tishrei 5675 (20 September 1914)
Golde bat Aharon Michael Gavriel haKohen z"l d. 10 Tishrei 5675 (20 September 1914)
Meir ben Mordechai Yehuda haKohen d. 15 Tevet 5652 (15 January 1892)
Meir ben Mordechai Yehuda haKohen d. 15 Tevet 5652 (15 January 1892)
Bila bat Ja'acov z"l d. 9 Sh'vat 5685 (3 February 1925)
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Bila bat Ja'acov z"l d. 9 Sh'vat 5685 (3 February 1925)
[5]
Ester bat Moshe KUPFERSTEIN d. 21 Elul 5701 (13 September 1941)
[6]
Ester bat Moshe KUPFERSTEIN d. 21 Elul 5701 (13 September 1941)
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Eliezer Liffa ben Avigdor LICHTMAN d. 29 Tevet 5694 (16 January 1934)
Eliezer Liffa ben Avigdor LICHTMAN d. 29 Tevet 5694 (16 January 1934)
Levi Yitzchak ben Nachum Yuda GRUNBERGER d. 6 Sivan 5685 (29 May 1925)
Levi Yitzchak ben Nachum Yuda GRUNBERGER d. 6 Sivan 5685 (29 May 1925)
Moshe Elimelech ben Rabbi Aharon haLevi d. 3 Tamuz 5671 (29 June 1911)
[7]
Moshe Elimelech ben Rabbi Aharon haLevi d. 3 Tamuz 5671 (29 June 1911)
[7]
Avigdor haKohen z"l ben Aharon Michael Gavriel haKohen WEINBERGER z"l d. 24 Sh'vat 5700 (3 February 1940)
Avigdor haKohen z"l ben Aharon Michael Gavriel haKohen WEINBERGER z"l d. 24 Sh'vat 5700 (3 February 1940)
Naftaly Hertzke ben Eliezer d. 18 Tishrei 5677 (15 October 1916)
Naftaly Hertzke ben Eliezer d. 18 Tishrei 5677 (15 October 1916)
Tsheva bat Ze'ev Chaim GOLDSTEIN d. 19 Sivan 5703 (22 June 1943)
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Tsheva bat Ze'ev Chaim GOLDSTEIN d. 19 Sivan 5703 (22 June 1943)
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Krasil bat Moshe Dov GOMBO d. 19 Elul 5696 (6 Septemebr 1936)
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Krasil bat Moshe Dov GOMBO d. 19 Elul 5696 (6 Septemebr 1936)
[9]
Tzivya bas Hatzadik Rabbi Tzvi d. illegible (illegible)
[10]
Tzivya bas Hatzadik Rabbi Tzvi d. illegible (illegible)
[10]
Ruchel bat Harav Naftuli TEITELBAUM d. 22 Sh'vat 5689 (2 February 1929)
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Ruchel bat Harav Naftuli TEITELBAUM d. 22 Sh'vat 5689 (2 February 1929)
[11]
Notes and Comments
[ 1 ] - Great-grandfather of Itzik KATZ and great-great-grandfather of Eugene KATZ.
[ 2 ] - Grandfather of Itzik KATZ.
[ 3 ] - Great-uncle of Itzik KATZ.
[ 4 ] - A Doctor by profession, he died in Vienna and was buried 25 Adar 5661 (16 March 1901).
[ 5 ] - Wife of Ja'acov Yisrael WEISZMANDEL z"l.
[ 6 ] - Wife of Avigdor LICHTMAN.
[ 7 ] - Grandson of Rabbi Naftali Hertzke ZILBERMAN.
[ 8 ] - Grandmother of Itzik KATZ.
There is an interesting story about this stone. It was erected in 1947 or 1948 after my parents fled Hungary. Before their escape, they paid someone to put the stone in place. As they had fled Hungary, they were never allowed to return and visit until the 1980's. My father passed away, in 1984, and my mother visited Újfehértó, in 1986, for the first time. She looked for the stone, but the cemetery was too overgrown with vegetation to find it.
A few years later, around 1990, she visited again with her sisters, Eva and Joly. By then, the cemetery had been cleaned and fenced and she finally found the stone. It was a very moving moment for the three sisters, since all this time - 52 years - my mother was tormented by the uncertainty of it's existence. There are a few spelling mistakes on the stone and it bears the wrong family name (GOLDSTEIN instead of SCHWARTZ) because there was no one to proofread it after my parents fled Hungary.
[ 9 ] - Wife of Rabbi Harav Shaul ROSENBERG.
[ 10 ] - Mother of Rabbi Shaul ROSENBERG, second wife of Rabbi Naftuli Hertzka ZILBERMAN, grandaughter of Rabbi Shaul KALIVER and her mother's name was Rivka.
[ 11 ] - Wife of Harav Zisha HALBERSTAM, the son of Hatzadik Harav Shulem Leizer HALBERSTAM.
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