Budapest Tourism: Hungary's National Jewish Museum & Archives
Budapest Tourism: Hungary's National Jewish Museum & Archives. Part of the series: Budapest Tourism. Hungary's National Jewish Museum and Archives is located in Budapest, and is one of the most valuable collections of Jewish culture in central Europe. Visit the National Jewish Museum and Archives when traveling to Budapest with tips in this free video on tourism. Read more:
Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives – Kilátó Clubhouse, Soteria Foundation
Visiting the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives in Budapest on Jan 25, 2018
Museum Memorializes Proud Hungarian Jewish Heritage
HOLY LAND UNCOVERED | Hungarian Jews were steadfast in their loyalty to the country and spoke the language preferably to Yiddish. Now, a museum is memorializing their lives in the country before the Nazis invaded. Our Shelby Weiner has the story.
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The Memorial Museum of Hungarian Jewry is a unique exhibition of Jewish culture. Located in Northern Israel, the Safed museum has a gallery showcasing Jewish life before the impacts of WWII and the Holocaust.
‘The main reason for setting it up is because this story isn’t being told by museums in Israel which keep our collective memory,’ the museum’s executive director, Ron Lustig, says.
Hungary used to me a much bigger country in the past part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but it was divided in the past it was three times bigger then it was today. In all those territories, Jews spoke Hungarian and their cultural orientation was towards Hungary.
Part of the museum focuses on how nationalistic Hungarian Jews were in the past and that their lives fused both their religion and their country.
‘As you can see this candle was made with the three colors of the Hungarian flag which tells you that Jews in Hungary were very loyal to their country,’ says Lustig.
Today, 300,000 Israelis trace their ancestry to Hungary and the museum keeps a detailed catalogue of their past with a database of synagogues and burial sites in Hungary. Many of the objects in the museum were donated from the Hungarian Jewish community, helping to preserve their shared cultural history.
‘Behind every artifact that we have in our possession, there is a family life story that we have documented and has created a unique story between the museum, the donors and the artifacts,’ explains Lustig.
The entire initiative behind the museum was started by the local Hungarian community in Northern Israel. And for Ron Lustig, it’s a family legacy to keep the museum running.
‘The group was led by my parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lustig, who were born in Hungary they survived the Holocaust and moved to Israel in 1948 arriving on the day of independence,’ Lustig tells.
Yosef Lustig accidentally discovered the crown exhibit of the museum. While travelling in Hungary, the Lustigs found the remains of a Holy Ark, or Aron HaKodesh, discarded after renovations. Today, it is reassembled and restored, proudly on display in the museum.
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Railway Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Railway museum, Budapest, Hungary 2016 - Vasúttörténeti park
The Magyar Vasúttörténeti Park (Hungarian Railway History Park) is a railway museum located in Budapest, Hungary at a railway station and workshop of the Hungarian State Railways (MÁV), the former Budapest North Depot. The museum covers more than 70,000 square meters and it features over one hundred exhibits, mostly including railway vehicles and equipment.
The museum has a fleet with many locomotives of the Hungarian State Railways, ranging from steam engines to electric engines, of which some are still operational.[1] The museum also exhibits other forms of rail transport, such as hand-powered cars and inspection cars. Some exhibits include a teak dining car built for the Orient Express and the Árpád railcar, respectively built in 1912 and 1934.
Synagogues of Hungary Part 2 Budapest B
Second episode checking out Jewish houses of worship in Budapest Hungary. duration: 4 min, 42 sec. credits: google maps, no profit intended.
Hungary marks 1945 liberation of Budapest ghetto
(19 Jan 2020) Hungary's Jewish community on Sunday commemorated the 75th anniversary of the liberation by Soviet troops of the Budapest ghetto, where over 70,000 Jews were confined near the end of World War II.
While 550,000 Hungarian Jews were killed during the Holocaust in Nazi-run death camps, in forced labor battalions or by the Nazis' Hungarian allies, many of the Budapest Jews survived the war in hiding, in the ghetto or helped by foreign diplomats like Sweden's Raoul Wallenberg.
Many hundreds of people attended the commemoration at Budapest's Dohany Street Synagogue, the largest in Europe, including Holocaust survivors, diplomats and politicians.
Robert Frolich, the synagogue's chief rabbi, spoke of ambivalent feelings surrounding the commemoration, which contains pain and mourning, but also the celebration of life.
Tamas Mester, president of the Budapest Jewish Community, spoke of growing responsibilities.
As time passes, our duty strengthens to guard the memory of the victims and oppose the growing pressure of forgetting, Mester said.
Yakov Hadas-Handelsman, Israel's ambassador to Hungary, mentioned Hungarian Jews who chose to stay in Hungary instead of immigrating to Israel or elsewhere after the Holocaust.
They had to face for decades the constant hardship of communism following the war, but against all odds they managed to plant the seeds of Jewish identity for the next generations, who by now make Jewish life in Hungary and elsewhere flourishing once again, Hadas-Handelsman said.
Vince Szalay-Bobrovniczky, deputy state secretary for civil society relations, said that despite the Holocaust, there was a considerable community of Jews in Budapest.
Facing up to its past, Hungary is united in the interests of preventing any people belonging to a national, ethnic, racial or religious minority from suffering grievances, Szalay-Bobrovniczky said.
Jews were forced to move into the ghetto, set up over an area encompassing more than 20 city blocks in Budapest's traditional Jewish quarter, from the end of November 1944.
Enclosed with wooden planks and brick walls, conditions in the ghetto during the cold winter were inhumane, with mass starvation, disease and thousands of dead bodies lined up at a square after the designated burial areas were full.
Most of the Hungarian Jews killed during the Holocaust, some 420,000 of them, were residents of countryside cities and villages from were they were deported by rail to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps in less than two months in mid-1944.
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Shoes on The Danube & Dohány Street Synagogue (Budapest)
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*The Dohány Street Synagogue is the largest synagogue in Europe and second largest in the world, seating 3000 people.
It was built between 1854 and 1859 and recently undergone a three-year reconstruction, funded largely by the world famous Estée Lauder, who had Hungarian and Jewish ancestors.
The Dohány Street Synagogue complex consists of the Great Synagogue, the Heroes' Temple, the graveyard, the Memorial and the Jewish Museum, which was built on the site on which Theodor Herzl's house of birth stood. Dohány Street itself, carries strong Holocaust connotations as it constituted the border of the Budapest Ghetto during WWII and even today still remains the center of the Jewish community in Hungary.
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Showcase: House of Terror Museum
It's called the House of Terror, and it really is a grim place to visit. But the museum in Budapest is not meant to entertain. It's there to teach and remember. It details the abuses committed by the Nazi and communist regimes. And as Francis Collings reports, it's also dedicated to their victims.
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HUNGARY:BUDAPEST: WORLD'S 2ND LARGEST SYNAGOGUE TO REOPEN
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The world's second largest synagogue, in the Hungarian capital Budapest, is due to reopen Thursday after a ten-million-dollar restoration.
The refurbished synagogue, built in 1859, can hold 3,800 worshippers.
Eighty per cent of the cost of the restoration has been paid by the state, with the remainder coming from private donations.
It's estimated that before World War Two, there were nearly one-million Jews in Hungary, and by the end of the conflict only 400,000 remained.
Many were rounded up and either murdered or imprisoned by the Nazis, prompting those who survived to emigrate.
Today Hungary has a Jewish population of 100,000, most of whom live in Budapest.
They have developed an increasing awareness of their culture and history, and have come to regard the synagogue as part of their heritage.
Gyorgy Frochlich was one of two survivors from his family: the rest all died in Auschwitz.
His wife, Vera, is equally proud of her culture.
SOUNDBITE: (In Hungarian)
I never denied being a Jew. There were times when I wasn't actually boasting about it, but I never denied it.
SUPER CAPTION: Gyorgy Frochlich
SOUNDBITE: (In Hungarian)
I always very strongly considered myself to be a Jew out of sheer defiance. I was three years old when I experienced the deportation. A child at seven to eight years old starts thinking about what happened to her. And I could not understand when I heard that two- hundred Jews were escorted by only two guards.
SUPER CAPTION: Vera Frochlich
Today the younger generation of Hungary's Jews has an easier life than their parents or grandparents.
SOUNDBITE: (In Hungarian)
It is much easier today to be a Jew. There are more opportunities for us, and we can admit much more easily that we are Jews. Thanks for God there are more and more people returning to Jewish identity and faith
SUPER CAPTION: Erika Frochlich
And many are now looking to the future, with the re-opening of the synagogue.
SOUNDBITE: (In Hungarian)
I believe that the Dohany Street synagogue has always had a major importance in the life of Hungarian Jewry. Since 1859 this temple has been the symbol of Hungarian Jewry.
SUPER CAPTION: Robert Frochlich, chief rabbi of the Dohany Street synagogue
Today's ceremony will be attended by the presidents of Hungary and Israel.
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Hungarian Jewry: Last Victims of the Holocaust
Ferenc Liszt Memorial Museum Budapest
Ferenc Liszt Memorial Museum Budapest Франц Лист. Дом Музей в Будапеште.
74th anniversary of liberation of Budapest ghetto
(18 Jan 2019) Dozens of people attended a commemoration service in the Great Synagogue of Budapest on Friday, marking the 74th anniversary of the liberation of the Budapest ghetto.
The ghetto was set up in 1944 and was used as a concentration camp where Jews were herded together before being deported to Auschwitz.
It was home to some 70,000 people and was eventually liberated by the Soviet Army in January 1945.
According to historians, 600,000 Hungarian Jews died during the Holocaust.
Outside the Great Synagogue - also known as the Dohany Street Synagogue - the graves of Holocaust victims fill the graveyard.
As part of the commemoration ceremony Friday, people placed stones of remembrance at the wall of the synagogue, underneath a large plaque with the names of the people who had died there.
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Jewish Quarter, Budapest
The Jewish district is the smallest in Budapest, yet it currently has the highest population density. This combination leads to an electric atmosphere – day and night – as the streets fill with a mix of happy locals and curious tourists.
The Jewish district is full with the historical remains of the Jewish community that once thrived here. There are three synagogues in the area with the Dohány Synagogue being the largest and, indeed, the second biggest in the entire world. Complete with a cemetery, a memorial garden and a museum, you can learn all about the Holocaust and the Budapest Ghetto that existed in this area. A small section of the wall, rebuilt from some of the originally-used bricks, still exists in the courtyard of a building on Király Street.
As you walk around, you’ll no doubt notice the narrow streets and passages – just like those on Gozsdu Udvar – connecting one long street with another. And, it’s on these streets that you’ll still find the bars and boutiques that make this area so interesting.
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Hungarian FM visits Holocaust Memorial Museum
1. Wide of Hall of Names at the Holocaust Memorial Museum
2. Hungarian Foreign Minister Kinga Goncz lighting flame
3. Close up of wreath
4. Wide Goncz laying wreath, zoom in to her
5. Various of Goncz touring the museum
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Hungarian Foreign Minister Kinga Goncz visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Thursday.
Goncz lit a flame and laid a wreath in memory of the Hungarian Jews murdered during the Holocaust.
Israel and Hungary share an extensive trade relationship and later in the day Kinga Goncz is expected to meet Israeli officials.
Of approximately 825-thousands jews living in Hungary at the start of the Second World War, about 550-thousand died or were killed.
Under the German occupation, most of them were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp.
Less that one-third of them survived the war.
Once home to one of the most flourishing and integrated Jewish communities of Middle-Eastern Europe, Hungary now has an estimated population of 70-thousand Jews.
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Budapest History Museum - Kilátó Clubhouse, Soteria Foundation
Visiting the Budapest History Museum, Castle Museum on Jan 29, 2016.
Hungarian Olympic and Sports Museum – Kilátó Clubhouse, Soteria Foundation
Visiting the Hungarian Olympic and Sports Museum in Budapest on Feb 23, 2018
Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest
The Holocaust Memorial Center is a renovated synagogue that dates back to the 1920s and serves as a memorial and museum. The museum showcases personal stories of Hungarian Jews that perished during the Holocaust out of approximately 17 million victims that were affected by the war.