Dohány Street Synagogue
Moorish Revival synagogue seating three thousand, with a Holocaust memorial garden and courtyard mass grave from the 1944 ghetto.
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This guide to the Dohány Street Synagogue in Budapest opens with Theodor Herzl, born in 1860 in an apartment overlooking its courtyard, decades before he would found the movement for a Jewish state. It follows that same courtyard through the winter of 1944-45, when the synagogue and surrounding streets became a sealed ghetto. Look for the metal willow tree at the back of the courtyard, and the plaque marking Herzl's birthplace nearby.
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