Jewish District

The Jewish Diestrict and Synagogue in Budapest has an interesting and unusual history. During WWII, several thousands of jews were maintained in the Budapest ghetto  in the Jewish District outside of the synagogue. Many people became sick and died due to the unsanitary conditions. The photo of the courtyard below contains tombstones of many of the Hungarian Jews that died during the Holocaust and in the Budapest Ghetto.

Since there were so many prisoners of war, the synagogue wasn’t bombed. With this natural protection in store Nazi soldiers used the 2^nd floor as a communications center. The synagogue remains the largest synagogue in the world in terms of square footage.