דעברעצין — בית החיים

Debrecen — the Jewish cemetery

Debrecen · דעברעצין

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Jewish cemetery, Monostorpályi út 10, Debrecen, Hajdú-Bihar, Hungary

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1.STILL AN ACTIVE CEMETERY, which is rare in this part of the world and changes how you behave in it. Several thousand matzevos, renovated, with clean paths that can be walked.
2.A caretaker lives beside the ground, so it is not a locked field — but arrangements go through the kehilla in the town, at Bajcsy-Zsilinszky utca 26.
3.Debrecen is the nearest city to several of the kever towns of eastern Hungary and has the kosher food and the mikvah those towns do not, so it is where people base themselves rather than a stop of its own.

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Closest airports

The three nearest airports with scheduled service — tap for exact driving or transit time.

Debrecen (DEB)Debrecen International· 5.1 km · 3 mi straight-line· regional
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Košice (KSC)Košice International· 129 km · 80 mi straight-line· regional
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Cluj-Napoca (CLJ)Cluj-Napoca International· 176 km · 109 mi straight-line· regional
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