4. Hall - 7. view

Memory book

In Bonyhád there was a prestigious Jewish community in the 18th century. After the extermination of the major part of the community, those who returned reestablished the community by 1949, and recorded the names of the dead members of the community in a memory book - following the medieval practice of writing memorbuchs. In the fourth line of the Hebrew text on the introductory page that lists those who died in labour service, the word labour service was written in Hungarian but with Hebrew letters since no suitable term could be found in Hebrew. The picture below the text indicates that the creator of the book had seen the photos that were taken during the excavation of the mass graves at concentration camps and labour camps.