Memorial Museum of the Hungarian Speaking Jewry

General Information

Facility Director: Mr. Yosef Lustig
Archivists:Chava Lustig (Hebrew, Hungarian, German)
Judit Zwecher (Hebrew, Hungarian, German)
Naomi Singer (Hebrew, English, Hungarian)
Address: Kikar Haatzmaut, Safed (= Zafet)
Mailing address: POB 1168 Safed 13111
Phone:972-4-692-5881
972-4-692-3880
Fax: 972-4-692-3880
E-mail:museum@hjm.org.il
Website: http://www.hjm.org.il/
Hours of Operation:
Museum
Sunday - Friday 9:00-13:00
Closed on Saturday and Jewish holidays.
Consultation: An appointment is necessary.
Closest Public Transportation:
5 minutes walking from the Central Bus Station in Safed
Directions: Opposite Beit Yigal Alon in Safed, close to the town center.
Access for Disabled: No

Description of Resources

The Museum is dedicated to the history and cultural heritage of Hungarian Speaking Jewry before the Holocaust. This includes besides Hungary of today also Slovakia, Carpathian Russia (Ukraine now), Transylvania (in Romania now), the Bachka-Banat area (in Yugoslavia) and Burgenland (in Austria). Besides the exhibition and audio-visual program, there are archives, library and a computerized information center.

Collection on Genealogy and family history--110 family dossiers:
List of Family dossiers at the Hungarian Jewry Museum in Safed

Adam	Hameiri	Reisman
Auslander	Hamori	Revesz
Bacs	Hochmann	Revesz Pal
Baneth	Kalman	Rosenberg
Bar-Josef	Kastner	Sajo
Barsi	Keleman	Sas
Ben-Porat	Keleti	Schonfeld-Alper
Bettelheim	Kemeny-Kohn	Sharon
Biro	Klein	Springer-Denes
Burger	Kohen	Steier
Csech Arnold	Kohn-Buzas	Steiner
Dalos	Komoly	Lang + Sugar
Danus	Komer	Szalai
Denes	Korodi	Szamosi
Deutsch	Kovacs	Szanto Erno
Drechsler	Kramer	Szanto
Eden	Landau	Szatmari
Eisdorfer	Lang	Szerdai
Ellenbogen	Lazar	Szombat
Epler	Levinger	Talmi
Epstein	Lobl-Vidor	Taubner
Epstein Zsuzsa	Lowinger	Vadas
Erdos	Lowy	Vajda
Fabian	Lukacs-Epstein	Varadi
Farkas	Makai	Varsanyi
Federer	Markovics	Vertes
Feher	Mejir	Virag-Fenyo
Feuerstein	Melcer	Yakobovitz
Fischel	Munkacsi	Zahavi
Frankl	Nobel	Zarkani
Fuhrer	Pajor	Zohar
Gayer	Peri
Geller	Pilitz
Gestetner	Polak
Giladi	Portos
Goitein	Refael
Halasz	Reif

Rabbinic Sources:
A fairly large library of secular and Rabbinic literature related to Hungary or by Hungarian Jews.
• Artifacts of secular and religious nature displayed. An Ark of Tora from a synagogue in Tokay recently retrieved from being disposed, shipped to Israel and restored, is on display now.

Lists of victims/Survivors--lists of victims of the Holocaust:
Lists of survivors living in Budapest in 1945-6 with personal information.

Cemeteries:
Close to 500,000 names of people buried in cemeteries in Hungary with personal details and locations.

Electronic resources
Computerized information center , video collection.

ALL THE MATERIAL IS COMPUTERIZED and is available on request against a service charge and/or through a computerized “showcase screen” installed on their premises. The “showcase screen” contains the computerized material with proper links to names of locations, names of persons, and other useful links and is operated by standing next to it and finger pointing to the required links. The material is in Hebrew and Hungarian. The catalogues use the Dewey system and there is a list of subjects.

There is limited space and personnel for visitors. Material can be ordered in advance. Searches can be made from abroad. There is a brochure of the Museum in Hebrew, English and Hungarian.

The findings and the screen content can be printed against a nominal charge. There are copying machines on the premises. Donations are welcome. U.S. Tax deductible donation can be made for the Museum through the P.E.F. Israel Endowment Funds, Inc.