Place · Central Europe
Budapest
City of the monumental Dohány Street Synagogue.
47.5020°N 19.0814°E · representative coordinate · approximate · Natural Earth Budapest ↗
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Budapest's Neolog community built the Great Synagogue from 1854 to 1859. The building combined neo-Islamic, Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic forms.
Community: Budapest Neolog community
Budapest's Neolog community built the Great Synagogue from 1854 to 1859. The building combined neo-Islamic, Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic forms.
Community: Hungarian Jews
Between 15 May and 7 July 1944, 437,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered at Auschwitz, nearly all gassed on arrival. Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat in Budapest, gave Swedish passports to 30,000 Jews and set up safe houses.