Large volume, Pinkas Hazkarat Neshamot (memorial book) of the Chevra Kadisha in the Raab community (Győr, Hungary), 1947.
Pinkas in calligraphic script from various writers. On the first leaf: "This Pinkas was produced by the Chevra Kadisha of the Raab community in 1947". On the second and third leaf, Mi Sheberach and El Maleh Rachamim in very large letters. The next leaves contain lists of people who passed away. Many of the lists comprise the names of parents alongside many of their descendants – presumably a documentation of entire families who perished in the Holocaust.
(Interestingly, in one of the long lists of names from one family, a strip of paper was pasted over one name in the middle of the list – presumably, the person who was assumed to have perished reappeared, and his name was therefore deleted from the list).
Raab (as it was known amongst the Jews; presently: Győr) was home to one of the oldest Jewish communities in Hungary, recorded already in the 15th century. In the beginning of May 1944, the Jews of in a ghetto, and in June, deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp. In 1946, after the war, several hundred refugees from the city and the surroundings reinstated the community, and R. Akiva Eisenberg was appointed to serve as their rabbi. Following the anti-Soviet Hungarian revolution in 1956, many emigrated, and today only a handful of Jews remain there (Kehillot Hungaria, pp. 100-101).
Large volume, 41 cm. 24 written leaves (and dozens more blank leaves). Thick paper. Good condition. Stains. New binding.