We went on a free walking tour of the Jewish District. We were very surprised by the Moorish architecture of the
Dohany Street Synagogue, Europe’s largest and the 5th largest in the world. Unfortunately, we never made it back in time to tour the inside.
In the rear courtyard of the synagogue is the Memory Park that features this
Memorial of the Hungarian Jewish Martyrs. This weeping willow bears inscriptions of the names of the 400,000 Hungarian Jews that were murdered by the Nazis.
Around the corner was this monument to the memory of Carl Lutz, a Swiss diplomat who saved over 50,000 Jews during the war by issuing rescue passports.
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