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Erzsébetváros & Lipótváros
Jewish Budapest
A walk through the Jewish quarter in date order, from the Great Synagogue of 1859 to Raoul Wallenberg, Carl Lutz and the ghetto of 1944. 10 stops, about 4 km. Arriving at each stop opens its story; there is no quiz.
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1/10 · 1859
Start where the Jews of Pest built at the scale of the city’s cathedrals.
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2/10 · 1872
A young Viennese architect’s first great building, raised as the community split in three.
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3/10 · 1901
Seven buildings and six courtyards between two streets of the old quarter.
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4/10 · 1913
The most modern style of its day, for the most traditional community in Pest.
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5/10 · 1931
A memorial to the Jewish soldiers who died for Hungary in the First World War.
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6/10 · 1944
A broken stone bench, and a briefcase someone seems to have left behind.
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7/10 · 1944
A golden figure lowers a cloth to someone lying on the ground: the memorial to Carl Lutz.
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8/10 · 1944
A rust-coloured wall marks where a fence closed off tens of thousands of people.
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9/10 · 1944–45
A low stone disc on the quarter’s biggest square is exactly the space each person had in the ghetto.
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10/10 · 1945 / 1990
A synagogue garden that became a cemetery, and a willow made of metal.