Klauzál Market Hall

This guide to Klauzál Market Hall in Budapest layers two histories onto one square: the iron-and-glass market that opened in 1897 with its own kosher section, and the wartime ghetto that closed around it when the Nazi-allied government sealed the Jewish quarter in November 1944. It follows Klauzál Square's role as the ghetto's administrative center, where new arrivals surrendered their valuables, through the worsening conditions of that final winter. Listen as you walk from the market hall's stalls out into the square beside it.