When the web page is launched the top window shows part of Bonyhád's map and on it a default yellow marker.
Below it is another window providing Google StreetView.

The yellow marker may be moved which navigates to StreetView of the associated area.

If a location or a marker is right clicked StreetView of the location's vicinity is shown.

The website can be used to search for people by their names and/or address.

IMPORTANT: Current street names must be used, not what was used in the 1940-s and earlier.
Near the end of this page is link to an Old Name to New Name translation table.

After a search for what were once facilities, residences and stores which were owned or inhabited by Jews right before the Holocaust in Hungary are narked after a search with small colored circles.

Small markers are needed to reduce "business" of the map since often many data points need to be shown, sometimes close to 200.

If the markers prove to be too small then their size may be increased by Zoom (bottom of the screen at right) or simultaneously pressing with Windows Contrl (Xtrl) and +.

Some Jews lived in private houses with one family etc. per address, which is represented by a small marker.

It is not possible to have a marker for each family who lived in an apartment building. Such locations are designated by a slightly larger marker.

If a location's marker is clicked a small pop-up "Info Window" appears. It shows the name, address and latitude,longitude for those who resided there - as shown nelow.

Placement of markers may be off by about 20 meters due to the way addresses are automatically translated to latitude, longitude on the map.
This may place a marker on the wrong side of a street, at a nearby house, etc.

Marker related information is from the application's database.

The locations marked on the map are mostly based on tables in the Hungarian edition of Mr. Leslie (László) Blau's book:
Bonyhád - Egy Elpusztított Zsidó Közösség (Bonyhád - A Destroyed Community)

The tables list what were Jewish places in Bonyhád in 1944.
The matrial was prepared by the Bonyhád local authorities in context of Hungary's anti-Jewish laws, various cruel actions and deportation of Jews to Auschwitz.

Currently it is difficult to verify the information and to get clarifications from descendants of families who were in Bonyhád in 1944.

Consequently the map can only give a general indication of what were once Jewish places. Some errors are expected.
Few locationds from the post-war period are also shown.

Suggested corrections and additions can be sent to lpfeffer@gmail.com.

There are standard Google Map controls on the map and StreetView windows.

Zoom in and out of the map is via the + or - sign at the map right center.

Switch between map and satellite view is with the controls on the bottom of the screen, where various options can be set.

Click on the StreetView and also the map top tight rectangular control switches either to full screen.

Pressing the rectangular control or ESC key returns to the original display format.

In some cases it may be useful to display the region via a satellite vs. map view
That removes the standard markers and labels whioch are on he map layer provided by Google.

To do this
(a) click Map vs. Satellite
(b) uncheck Labels

NOTE: Satellite view does NOT show street names.

Minimal shows only the markers, icons, labels without background and provides the most uncluttered view.
It shows no map or satellite image data and zoom control - just a white background and markers, icons.

All 3 view types can be zoomed via the ZOOM IN and OUT buttons at bottom

Views MAP, SATELLITE or MINIMAL can be set via options on bottom of the screen. Refresh must be pressed for the choice to take effect.

Satellite view

Minimal background view with the application's markers

The map needs to be refreshed by pressing the Refresh button after change of any option.

In many cases maps populated with markers can get very "busy" and it becomes difficult to make sense of many locations.
Zooming In separates markers which are too close.

People or locations may be searched for.
Markers are shown for those found and optionally highlighted.
Only those are shown whose name OR address fully or partially matches search criteria in the Search Terms field.

One or more comma separated strings of letters needs to be typed into the Search terms box after it is cleared of prior content.
Search is on a combined string of people's name and address.

If more than one search comma separated terms is entered then all matching locations are selected and marked on the map if any of the search terms match. For example Pollak, Hirschfeld, Eisner, Glattstein would select and mark matches for any of the terms.
This is called OR selection.

Any number of spaces may be entered before and after commas.

Hungarian "accent marks" on characters in search terms and data base entries are removed.
For example Rákóczi and Rakoczi would have the same effect.

Search is not case sensitive and does not care if characters are in lower, upper or mixed case.

Sufficient to enter only part of a name or an address.
For example the list bro, koh, sing would select locations of homes for families Brown, Kohn, Singer.

Search for locations in Rákóczi Ferenc and Perczel Mór can be specified as Rakoczi, Perczel or as Rako, Per.

After typing the search information the Refresh button needs to be presed to do the search.
the locations whose name and/or address is matched or partly matched by any of the search terms are shown.

Search for a specific address such as say Rákóczi Ferenc u. 26 would need to be specified exactly as Rákóczi Ferenc u u. 26 or Rakoczi Ferenc u. 26.
All locations on a street would be marked if the search criterion is just Rakoczy or even Rako. No need to accent charcters

Asterisk "*" may be used as a wild card.
If it is the search term then all locations in the database are selected and marked on the map.

There is an option to only show the selected people or places, in which case the markers are blue.

Similarly to the above, places may be selected by place type.
Currently he following place types are procesed: home, homes (multi-dwelling residences), cemetery, cheder, jewish, mikve, rabbi, sochet, synagogue, yeshiva.

For example, specifying home selects or highlights only residences.
(Stores are treated as homes for various reasons, thus search for 'home' shows residence and store locations.)
A search string may be "Hom, Syn"

Highlighting in red selected places
Highlight was checked

Showing only places for Hirschfeld, Pollák, Singer families
Search terms: Hirschfeld, Pollak, Singer. Checked Show only

Selected only building at Rákóczi Ferenc u. 10
Search terms: Rakoczi Ferenc u. 10. Checked Show only

Poll&37, Hirsch&Imre&2 would select residence for the Pollak family at Perczel Mor u. 37 and the Hirschfeld family at Szent Imre u. 2.

Search is NOT case sensitive, thus it makes no difference if the search terms are typed in upper or lower case.

The map must be refreshed with the Refresh button after any change to the search and highlight control fields.

The application is based on Google Map tools and some programming.

The program is running on a server.

The data needed for the map would have been difficult to collect. Tables in Leslie Blau's book (see below) made this task much easier.

One difficulty was translating street names from nerly 80 year old records to current street names needed for GoogleMap.

Some Bonyhád streets were renamed some time after the 1945 Russian occupation and some were again renamed after end of Communism in Hungary in the late 1980s.

A street name translation table was developed for this.

The following people in Bonyhád helped greatly with this task: Dr. Zoltán Szőts, Mr. Gyïrgy Steib and Mrs. József Müller

Comments to: lpfeffer@gmail.com

Updated July 30, 2023