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Memorial Center Park
Holokauszt Emlékközpont Vasúttörténeti Park
Páva utca 39. @ 4, 6. q Corvin– Tatai út 95. £ Vintage diesel shuttle
Negyed. Tel (06 1) 455 33 33. from Nyugati station 10:20am, 11:20am,
Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun. & 7 1:20pm. @ 30A from Keleti station.
∑ hdke.hu Tel (06 1) 450 14 97. Open Apr–Oct:
10am–6pm Tue–Sun. Closed Nov–
The Center was founded in Mar. & 7 ∑ vasuttorteneti
order to collect and study park.hu
material relating to the history
of the Holocaust, and to honour This open-air museum of
its victims. The building complex railway history is one of Europe’s
is a mix of classical and modern largest. It boasts around 100
architecture, and its asymmetrical locomotives – most fully
outline and dislocated walls all functioning – dating from the
symbolize the distorted and early days of steam to modern
twisted time of the Holocaust. times. Visitors can drive a steam
A permanent exhibition train, play with a model railway
examines the history of the and ride in a line-inspection car.
suffering of Hungarian Jews Every year, the legendary Orient Gleaming ceramic tiles on the roof
and Roma during the Holocaust. Express makes several visits of Kőbánya Parish Church
here. The park is popular with
families as well as enthusiasts, surviving heavy World War II
and there is a full programme bombing, a number of Miksa
of events for children. Roth’s original stained-glass
windows are still in place.
e Kőbánya Parish
Church r Municipal
Kőbányai Plébániatemplom Cemetery
Szent László tér. @ 9, 17, 32, 62, 185. See pp162–3.
v 37. 7
An industrial suburb on the t Jewish Cemetery
eastern side of Pest, Kőbánya
is the unexpected home of Izraelita Temető
the beautiful Kőbánya Parish Kozma utca. @ 95, 202E.
Church. Designed by Ödön
The impressive open-space interior of Müpa Lechner (see p58) in the 1890s, Next door to the Municipal
Budapest, a cultural hub the church makes magnificent Cemetery is the Jewish
use of the architect’s favourite Cemetery, opened in 1893.
q Müpa Budapest materials, including vibrant The many grand tombs here
MÜPA roof tiles developed and are a vivid reminder of the
produced at the now-famous vigour and success of
Komor Marcell utca 1. v 1, 2, 2A, 24.
Tel (06 1) 555 3000. Open 10am– Zsolnay factory in the town Budapest’s pre-war Jewish
10pm daily. Ticket Office: (all events) of Pécs. Like much of community. At the end of
Open 10am–6pm. ∑ mupa.hu Lechner’s work, including the 19th century, nearly
the Museum of Applied a quarter of the city’s
Formerly known as the Palace Arts (see pp140–41), inhabitants were
of Arts, Müpa Budapest (MÜPA) the church combines Jewish. Tombs to
in the Millennium City Centre, motifs and colours look out for as
located on the Pest side of the from Hungarian you stroll among
Danube between the Lágymányos folk art with the graves
bridge and the National Theatre, Neo-Gothic include that
brings together the different elements. Inside of the Wellisch
branches of the arts under the church, family, designed
one roof. Permanent residents both the altar in 1903 by Arthur
include the Ludwig Museum and the pulpit Wellisch, and
of Contemporary Art, the are superb that of Konrád
National Philharmonic examples of Polnay, which
Orchestra, the Béla Bartók early 20th- was designed
National Concert Hall and century wood Schmidl family tomb at the five years later
the National Dance Theatre. carving. Somehow Jewish Cemetry by Gyula Fodor.

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