Gozsdu Court

This guide to Gozsdu Court in Budapest opens with the 1870 will of lawyer Emanoil Gojdu, who left his fortune not to his family but to Romanian Orthodox students he never met, and the architect Győző Czigler hired around 1900 to turn that money into seven linked apartment blocks. It follows the passage from a bustling shopping arcade of over forty-five workshops into the boundaries of the Budapest Ghetto in November 1944, and through the decades of confiscation and dispute between Hungary and Romania that followed. Notice how the six courtyards still funnel foot traffic from one street to the next.