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Memorial Museum of the Hungarian Speaking Jewry - Safed


Address: Kikar Haatzmaut, Safed (= Zafet)     GET MAP

Mailing address: POB 1168 Safed 13111
Phone:  972-4-692-5881     972-4-692-3880 
Fax: 972-4-692-3880

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.

Resources for genealogical research at the Memorial Museum of the Hungarian Speaking Jewry prepared by the musuem staff. (available in Hebrew only)

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.

website: http://www.hjm.org.il/


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