As we head into the US holiday of Thanksgiving, it is time for us to take stock of what we have achieved in this massive project and express our gratefulness for where we have come to. We also think forward to what still lies before us and while significant, an end to Phase I is in sight within 3 years.

The second quarter of 2024 continued apace with a very exciting new development in our work ...

The completely overgrown sections 30 and 31 have been cleared of bushes and some trees.

With so much activity over the last 7 months, we feel a midyear update is worthy of your attention.

It is with pleasure that we would like to invite you (18-23 years old) to our Cemetery Event this year in Budapest, July 20-27, 2021. Do something good for the community and for yourself. Travel again for the first time after the pandemic.

Please read our progress report for 2019. It was a challenging season.

H.E. US Ambassador to Hungary David B. Cornstein and our project representatives after the cemetery tour we gave the high-ranking guest.

We will begin with a significant amount of woodchipping the week after next and simultaneously, we will spray our completed section to ensure that weeds and reseeding do not recur.

On Oct 15th 2018, after 18 months of planning and fund raising, we began the work of saving one of the world’s largest Jewish cemeteries.

The idea of the “Friends of the Budapest Jewish Cemetery” project originated from Michael Perl and Marc Pinter. They got to know each other during a dinner in November 2015.

We’ve been incredibly busy in Budapest. Working with a larger team, we are proud to say we have completed 50,000 sq meters (12.4 acres) year-to-date regaining access to 15,920 graves. To give some perspective, last year was our biggest year yet where we completed 80,000 sq. meters for the whole year. ...

With so much happening, we thought a quarterly update would be useful. Please press "read more" to see the whole message.

Combining the good with the useful. Our park benches are very popular.

We take pleasure in wishing you a happy new year for 2022. May it be healthy and successful for all of us!

Video from section 29. Currently we finish restoration of sections 29 and 29A.

Today we started the restoration of section 33C. It has an area of 5 643 sqm (60 740 sqf.). About 1 465 individuals have been buried here between 1945 and 1967.

Please read this nice article in Italian.

As almost 100% of our donors come from countries such as the USA, Canada, UK and  Australia this page will now have entries written mostly in English. 

We need our American co-foundation because of our American founders. In case of donation, they ask for such a tax certificate, which they can use in the USA when they do the taxes.

As 2024 comes to a close, we are thrilled to report that this has been our biggest year of progress to date! ...

Here is our wrap for 2023, we hope you enjoy reading it.

Here is our wrap on 2022, we hope you enjoy reading it. Please look beyond the summary to read about our recent thrilling discovery as well as our new map. This was a long time in the making and took at least one hundred hours of work.

Learn how our volunteer week went. We worked a lot, achieved a lot and also had a lot of fun.

The video is from section 33C. Here you can see how 25 years of neglect affect the graves.

Last weekend we organized a volunteers' day together with students of Scheiber Jewish highschool in Budapest.

After a long winter break of 3 1/2 months, we are thrilled to announce that we have made a strong start to our 2019 season.

The Canadian Jewish News recently spoke to some local residents about their work with us. 

We signed a letter of intent with the Jewish Parish of Budapest. With this, the manager of the cemetery, the Jewish Parish expressly supports the project.