Jewish Budapest – half day tour

Duration: 4 hours
This tour is focusing for the most important Jewish sights of Budapest.

We start with a walking tour in the old Jewish Quarter, visit the Dohany Street Synagogue (Europe’s biggest), the Jewish Museum with wealth of artifacts and documents relating to Jewish history in Hungary., see the Holocaust Memorial, dedicated to over 600,000 Jews who perished during the Nazi reign of terror. Then continue our walk to the Orthodox Section of the Jewish Quarter, see the Mikvah building, the Orthodox Synagogue and Community Center, where the moving still stand iron Chuppah is waiting in the Courtyard of the Synagogue for the next wedding… During our walk we will also see standing but not in used Synagogue, part of the original ghetto wall and other memorials relating to the Holocaust. Besides seeing and feeling the past we enjoy the evidences of some Jewish revivals. Several kosher shops, kosher butcher store, kosher restaurants, Jewish souvenirs all try to recall the original atmosphere of this district. After this walk we drive to the “Glass-house”. Learn about the rescue and resistance movements during WWII. This is not “just a museum”, but an authentic place as it was used for immigration office and later on shelter and hiding place under the protection of the Swiss Vice-Consul, Carl Lutz. At the end of the tour we see the Shoes Memorial on the River Bank. This is the memorial place from where the Nazi Hungarians shot the Jews into the Danube River in winter of 1944-45.