Historic plaques placed on Hungarian shuls

Until recently, the buildings were not identified as having once been houses of Jewish worship. Over the last two years, Paul Herczeg has seen large commemorative plaques affixed – at his personal expense – to 10 former synagogues across his native country.

The synagogues – most of which are tall, stately and capacious – are now mainly libraries or cultural centres. But, to Herczeg’s chagrin, one is a furniture store and another is a television studio.

The plaques pay tribute to the fact that before 1944 – the year the Germans physically occupied Nazi-allied Hungary – the edifices served as a “place[s] of worship for the Jewish community.

“From here they proclaimed the glory of God,” the plaques read, but then they “became silent. These walls are a reminder of the martyrdom of the victims.”


Source: cjnews