The first one to be visited was the Holocaust Memorial Centre which is situated on Pava Utca, just off Ulloi Utca in the 9th District and is a truly moving history lesson. Set in an old synagogue, the museum relates the persecution of both Jewish and Roma peoples in Hungary through the late 1930s till 1945. One of the shocking facts is the numbers involved - 1 in 10 people killed in the Holocaust and 1 in 3 of those killed in Auschwitz was a Hungarian, but the plight of Hungarian Jews is less reported on than those from Poland and other parts of Eatern Europe. The museum is structured in such a fashion that you follow the story of 5 families in the face of persecution - 4 Jewish (both from Budapest and the countryside as well as differing classes)and also a Roma family. The scale of the devastation that befell Budapest is also explained and presented so you are made to understand the implications of the war in Hungary.
www.hdke.hu/index.php?changelang=eng
The other Museum that I have visited recently is the Museum of Applied Arts (what I thought was the Design and Textile museum which the beautiful green roof.) In all honesty, it was a little disappointing once you are insight as the museum was seriously damaged in both WWII and also the 1956 Uprising so it appears somewhat empty although the 2 bits that I went to see, the Treasures of the Esterhazy Princes and the Turkish Carpets were interesting enough but the star of the show is the building itself.
www.imm.hu/angol/index.html
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