Hatikvah in Hungary. Almost 600,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. This weekend, The Great Synagogue of Budapest, one of the oldest and largest synagogues in Europe, was packed with over 3,000 young athletes competing in the European Maccabi Games. Turn on the sound to hear Hatikvah, Israel’s national […]
During WWII, Jews in Budapest were brought to the edge of the Danube, ordered to remove their shoes, and shot, falling into the water below. 60 pairs of iron shoes now line the river’s bank, a ghostly memorial to the victims. ‘Shoes on the Danube Promenade’ by Can Togay and […]
They had been previously married to other people before the war that’s why my grandmother isn’t wearing a wedding dress. They managed to get out of Hungary in 1956 and started a new life in Brazil. The photo on the bottom was taken 2 weeks ago when I visited the […]
Jeffery Bressman
