Garden of Remembrance & Memorials

Jewish Cemetery- After the reign of terror by the Arrow Cross and the starvation following the siege, 2281 of the victims were buried in 24 mass graves in the garden. A significant number of those in the mass graves are unnamed.The ghetto was liberated on January 18, 1945 by the Soviet Red Army and the identification and burial of the corpses found in the garden of the synagogue with the names places on memorial plaques, even if not identified.

In 1944, 2281 (of the 8-10,000 that died) died in the ghetto from hunger and cold during the winter and are buried in this courtyard of the synagogue. That same year, 70,000 Jews were relocated to the ghetto of Pest. The Wallenberg Holocaust Memorial Park in the rear courtyard holds the Holocaust Tree of Life Memorial. At least 400,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered by the Nazi. The tree resembles a weeping willow whose leaves bear inscriptions with the names of victims. There is also a memorial to Wallenberg and other Righteous Among the Nations (non-Jews) that helped and risk their lives to save Jews.Read more