What happened to Budapest's Jews, and who tried to save them?
4 walks with different starting points and stories. Compare their maps, stops and duration, then choose where to begin.
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These walks approach Budapest in 1944 through persecution, rescue and remembrance. The theme keeps people and their decisions at the centre, locating episodes in particular places. It helps distinguish between experiences and invites attention to the spaces where the city remembers that history, with time to listen to each account in its own context.
In “From Parliament to the Glass House”: The shoes beside the river place the memory of victims within a walk through Lipótváros's institutions and monuments.
In “The Jewish Quarter”: Erzsébetváros told through its synagogues and its houses: the largest synagogue in Europe when it opened, the garden that became a cemetery, Wallenberg and what we don't know about him, Carl Lutz and the Spanish diplomat Ángel Sanz Briz, the deportation of 1941, the yellow-star houses and a ghetto sealed with planks.
In “The Spanish Houses of Budapest”: Then you walk past the houses that Spain's legation, led by the young Spanish diplomat Ángel Sanz Briz, declared its own territory in 1944: in one of them lived a fourteen-year-old boy who, as a historian, would later publish the list of those protected.
Choose from 4 independent walks in Budapest. Open the one that interests you to see its map, stops and approximate duration before deciding. You don't need to do them all or follow this selection's order; each walk has its own starting and finishing points.
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Erzsébetváros told through its synagogues and its houses: the largest synagogue in Europe when it opened, the garden that became a cemetery, Wallenberg and what we don't know about him, Carl Lutz and the Spanish diplomat Ángel Sanz Briz, the deportation of 1941, the yellow-star houses and a ghetto sealed with planks.
Then you walk past the houses that Spain's legation, led by the young Spanish diplomat Ángel Sanz Briz, declared its own territory in 1944: in one of them lived a fourteen-year-old boy who, as a historian, would later publish the list of those protected.
You start on the street of famous prisoners and in a room where the Jews of medieval Buda prayed.
The shoes beside the river place the memory of victims within a walk through Lipótváros's institutions and monuments.
A view can seem close while lying across a bridge. Keep each walk within a sensible area and save some energy for simply stopping beside the Danube.
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