Holocaust Memorial Center, Holocaust museum and memorial on Páva Street, Budapest, Hungary
The Holocaust Memorial Center occupies the former Páva Street Synagogue, completed in the 1920s, and an adjoining new building by architect István Mányi, opened in 2004. The structure is asymmetrical, and a set of stairs leads up to the exhibitions, placed in the upper part of the building. The museum documents the persecution of Jews, Roma, homosexuals and the disabled.
The Páva Street Synagogue, completed in the 1920s, was renovated and opened as the state-founded Holocaust Memorial Center in 2004, after the Hungarian government established the institution in 1999. Architect István Mányi designed the asymmetrical building with Attila Gáti. In 2011 director Andras Levente Gal was dismissed after an international outcry over his presentation of the Hungarian state's role in the deportations.
The center occupies the former Páva Street Synagogue, completed in the 1920s, and its name is written Holokauszt Emlékközpont in Hungarian. The exhibitions focus on Hungarian Jews but also address the discrimination and killing of Roma, homosexuals and the disabled. A research center lets visitors search for family members and add names to the museum's database.
The museum occupies the former Páva Street Synagogue at 39 Páva Utca in District IX, with exhibitions reached by a staircase designed to evoke the distorted time of the Holocaust. The research center lets visitors search for family members and add names to the database. Allow time for both permanent and temporary displays.
A memorial wall in the courtyard displays approximately 60,000 names of Hungarian Holocaust victims and allows visitors to search for family members. These names make the enormous human losses immediately tangible.
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