סערענטש

סערענטש — בית החיים

Szerencs — the Jewish cemetery

Jewish cemetery, Árpád hill, Szerencs, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Hungary

• THE PADLOCK'S COMBINATION IS WRITTEN ON THE GATE — IN HEBREW. The cemetery is up on Árpád hill and the gate is locked with a combination padlock. On a board beside it is the word for code in Hebrew letters, followed by four more Hebrew letters. Read them as numbers and that is the combination. No key, no keyholder, no telephone call.
• THE OHEL IS AT THE TOP OF THE HILL and it is kept in good order — swept, quiet, nothing like the rest of the ground.
• Outside the ohel expect long grass and matzevos worn thin by the weather. This is not a maintained cemetery; it is a maintained ohel in an unmaintained cemetery.
• Szerencs is in the Zemplén, so it comes on the same route as Tokaj, Bodrogkeresztúr, Mád and Ijhel rather than on its own.