Budapest: Dohany Street Synagogue

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Dohany Street Synagogue

dome above the ark
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Dohany Street Synagogue

close-up of dome
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Dohany Street Synagogue

The shofar is blown from this platform.
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Dohany Street Synagogue

The sign notes that this was the site of the house where Theodore Herzl (1860-1904) was born.
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Dohany Synagogue Courtyard- Mass Grave

Before the ghetto survivors were liberated in January 1945, 10,000 Jews had died of starvation, exposure, illness or as victims of Nazi violence during the preceeding two months. They were buried in this mass grave.
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Dohany Synagogue Complex - Mass Grave

Many victims had no surviving relatives. The markers were put up by friends and families of victims but do not mark individual graves.
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