"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."- George Santayana
I took a picture of this sign, found on a quiet street in the Old city, which I wanted to translate when I got back to my computer. Below is a rough translation of what it said although it doesn't translate exactly. But the message is very clear what happened here.
"On this street, in May and June 1944 in the Jewish Ghettos.....deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
To commemorate the victim's self-government in 1996 were drawn."
The pictures below are of the street as we walked unbeknownst to us what horror occurred here during that time.
Of the original 825,000 Jews that lived in Hungary before the war, 260,000 Hungarian Jews survived but 565,000 perished. During World War II, approximately 6 million Jews perished.
Unimaginable. I have no words.
Below is a Medieval Synagogue on the site of the infamous street above. It is from the 13th Century. The synagogue was a house of prayer, a place for congregations and a school. After the expulsion of the Jewish people in 1526 (history keeps repeating itself) it began to decay. Today it has been renovated into private homes.
Every little corner of this Old City has history that unfolds for us as we discover it.
As well as learn from it.
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