Bezi
Bezi lies in the Eastern part of the
Györ-Moson-Sopron comitatus, 5 km Northwest of Enese, 20 km West of Györ.
Traveling by car from Györ, it can most easily be reached on the main country
road no. 85 towards Csorna, one turns right at Enese heading in direction of
Bezi. Bezi ows its name to the first settlers there, the Besenyök
(Petschenegen), its present spread is the result of Bisseni, Bezi and Bessi
growing together.
Cemetery
A statement from 1850 holds that the
community consisted of 222 Catholics, 435 Protestants and 130 Jewishs. Bezi now
is a lot smaller than it was in 1850. It has less than 500 inhabitants, the Jews
have vanished altogether. Only the village cemetery indicates that there must
have been Jews living here. Up to 2001 the Jewish cemetery was decaying, covered
in weeds. It was then put in order by municipal government and merged with the
Catholic and Protestant cemeteries, all three now have one entrance. The dead
seem to get along well... Then again, they had lived together peacefully as
well. It was politics that interfered with the lives of the locals, up to the
deportations they had lived very well with the Jews. Only the older citizens now
remember that the merchant in Bezi was called Löwinger... Kohns and Löws lived
here as well... until the deportations sealed their fate. There are 50
tombstones in the Jewish cemetery of Bezi, most of them with Hebrew writing and
barely legible. The dates too can no longer be deciphered so it is hard to tell
how long the cemetery was in use. |
