House of Terror Museum

This guide to the House of Terror Museum in Budapest centers on Abbot Vendel Endrédy, led down into the basement of Andrássy út 60, praying not for himself but to forget the names of the friends his interrogators wanted from him. It traces the building's double life, first as Arrow Cross headquarters during the war, then as the communist secret police's own base, and walks you through reconstructed cells built to break people in different ways. Above you, the roof's black eave still cuts the word TERROR into its own shadow.