Holocaust Memorial Center

This centre, housed in a striking modern building in a working-class neighbourhood, opened in 2004 on the 60th anniversary of the start of the holocaust in Hungary. Both a museum and an educational foundation, the centre’s permanent exhibition traces the rise of anti-Semitism in Hungary from 1938 to the mass deportations of Jews to German death camps in 1944–45. A sublimely restored synagogue, designed by Leopold Baumhorn and completed in 1924, in the central courtyard hosts temporary exhibitions on everything from the Anschluss to the genocide of the Roma people during WWII. An 8m-high wall outside records the names of Hungarian victims of the Holocaust.