Jewish Life in Bonyhád

Blog maintaind by Rabbi Reueven Chaim Klein

Brief visitor guide to Bonyhád's main Jewish and related sites
for members of the International Bonyhád Jewish Community.

Bonyhád and its aerial views, the two cemeteries, gravestones, maps,
Jewish places in Bonyhád

Aerial views of Bonyhád via a drone

  High resolution aerial (drone) photos of the Bonyhád Orthodox cemetery and high resolution photos of the gravestones were taken in April 2024 by Mr. Gábor Szentes and Réka Máté, respectively.
Two webpages were developed with which to view the gravestones.

Due to storage limitation on the webserver the gravestone images are shown in reduced resolution.

Website 1: click a dot on a small gravestone image
to see the associated gravesone photo

Website 2: click to view the gravestones only

 Interactive map of places where Jews lived in Bonyhád
Shows locations where Jews resided or had other presence in Bonyhád until Spring 1944.

On the above three webpages click HELP for explanations and guidance.

The three websites were developed to be used with computers and large screens
and may not work well on smart phones.

Jewish Life in Bonyhád 3D Visualization

Map of the Bonyhád Ghetto (Spring 1944)

Aerial views of the two Jewish Cemeteries

Bonyhád street etc. name translation from old names

Holocaust and the Bonyhád Jewish Community

Bonyhád Holocaust Memorial Plaque (2014)

Bonyhád Megilat Hashmada (Scroll of Destruction) - Martyr List

New Holocaust memorial in Bonyhád (2014) by the old synagogue

New Holocaust memorial in Bonyhád (2014) with Martyr List

Video of photos showing the 2014 Forgotten Faces exhibit in the old ("Neologue") synagogue.
The exhibit is still in the synagogue building. Photos by Réka Máté

Rabbi Pesach Singer's talk (Hungarian) in Bonyhád at the Old Synagogue Exhibit,
which followed unveiling of the new Shoah Monument near the synagogue
planned, paid for and built by the residents of Bonyhád.

Video of the exhibit by Réka Máté

Slide show of the Forgotten Faces exhibit by Réka Máté
 

Holocaust Memorials

Holocaust Memorial (2011)
Holocaust Memorial (20l8)
Holocaust Memorial (2019)
Holocaust Memorial (2020)
Holocaust Memorial in Bonyhád and Stumbling Blocks (April 2022)
Holocaust Memorial in Bonyhád - June 28, 2022)
Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem (July 18, 2022)
Holocaust Memorial in Bonyhád (April 2023)
Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem (July 9, 2023)
Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem (July 24, 2024)
 

Post-WWII Books about Bonyhád's Jewish Community

Downloadable book - Mr. János (Zvi) Eisner: A bonyhádi zsidók története (Tel Aviv 1965 in Hungarian)
History of the Jews of Bonyhád and a brief Addenda

Leslie Blau: Bonyhád: a Destroyed Community (New York, 1994) Click to view on Google Books

Blau László: Bonyhád – Egy elpusztított zsidó közösség (Bonyhád, 2008 in Hungarian)
Click to view in Google Books
Available at the Israel National Library

Hanna Galandauer: The Apple Tree (Jerusalem, 2017 in Hebrew)
Available at the Israel National Library

Lily Ebert and grandson - Lily's Promise: Holding On to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond -
A Story for All Generations (May 2022)
Available on Amazon

וידבר משה השלם
דרושים ופנינים נפלאים על פרשיות התורה : מוסר, אגדה והלכה / מאת רבי משה הלוי פאלאק

Veyedaber Moshe
About Jewish life in Bonyhád and teachings of a famous and highly regarded Rabbi of Bonyhád: Rabbi Moshe Halevy Pollák.
6 volume set in Hebrew edited by Rabbi Pollák's grandson Rabbi Eliezer Halevy Pollák
Published in Jerusalem (July 2022)
Available at the Israel National Library
May be purchased directly from Rabbi Eliezer Pollak
a6370552@gmail.com Mobile: +972 052 717-2774

Mr. Leslie Blau: בונהאד חורבן קהילה יהודיה Click to view on academia.edu
Bonyhád: a Destroyed Community (in Hebrew Jerusalem, 2022)
Edited an published by Rabbi Chaim Reuven Klein.
Translated from Hungarian by Keren Bar-Shaked.
Published version on Google
Book available at the Israel National Library

  Bonyhád related interviews by Dr. Les Glassman

Interview videos

Other material about Bonyhád

Bonyhád Jewish Community - An important resource managed by Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein

Bonyhád Holocaust Monument Facebok Group's page

Bonyhád as we remember it (video slide show).
Martyr List at end is incomplete

Bonyhád Orthodox Synagogue until Spring 1944 - Exterior (recent photo)

Bonyhád Orthodox Synagogue until Spring 1944 - Interior

Videos about Lily Ebert (Englman) and Family

A Bonyhád "Gnizah"

  Mr. Zsolt Breuer, an antique dealer in Bonyhád, obtained a large number of old sforim. Many may be in poor condition. Many books include names and even notes, scribbles by those who used them long ago

Images of pages with names etc. can be seen via Google Drive

Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein in Jerusalem found the following family names in some of the books whose relevant page(s) were available to him:

Alweisz, Beck, Blum, Ferenc, Fridling, Frohlich, Goldring, Kaufman, Kohler, Kohn,Krausz, Kritzler, Lajos, Muller, Roth, Salamon, Schwarz, Steiner, Strausz, Ullman, Warum, Weisz, Zeif

Some names could not be deciphered and there may be additional books not seen to date.

Mr. Breuer offered to gift some of the books to close relatives of those whose name appears in the sforim when they visit in Bonyhád. Hopefully an arrangement can be made for certified relatives to receive selected sforim via mail.

  Video of visit to Bonyhád by Avigdor Galandauer from London to obtain some of the sforim.
Produced by talented and kind photographer in Bonyhád: Réka Máté (in Hungarian).

  Article about the visit by Réka Máté (in Hungarian)
If viewed with the Google Chrome browser there is an option to automatically translate to English.

Holocaust in Hungary - by Eszter Garai Edler (Budapest)

Holocaust deportation map

Holocaust deportatation table

Extraordinary actions and deportations

Forced Labor Camps (munkaszolgálat)

Auschwitz Transports from Hungary (brief article)

Few Who Saved Many

Few Who Saved Many

Switzerland Awakens:
George Mantello (Mandel), the Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz
and Switzerland's Finest Hour

Help From The New World

Diplomat Protectors and Rescuers

  The Rescuers during the Holocaust