Pre-Conference tour

9:00-18:00 Registration in the hotel lobby

10:30 Departure from the hotel
attendant: Zsolt Sári

Information: the group travels together between the program venues, using public transport. For this day, we provide a daily ticket.

11:00-13:30 Guided tour in the Jewish quarter

The Budapest Jewish Quarter, the heritage area which was actually a ghetto during WW II, is one of the most popular places of the city with the still perceptible beautiful past. In spite of the terrible history of the 20th century Hungarian Jewish communities, Jewish culture has a revival in Budapest with the largest Central and Eastern European Jewish community living here.

During our walk we are going to discover the famous “synagogue triangle” (which actually is a rectangle) including the Great Synagogue, the second largest synagogue of the world, the Kazinczy Street Synagogue and the Rumbach Street Synagogue. We will also visit poignant monuments commemorating the Budapest ghetto. We will see some great example of street art, picturesque architecture and one of the oldest Jewish museum in the world: The Hungarian Jewish Museum.

https://jewishtourhungary.com/en

13:30-14:30 Cold lunch box provided at the end of the tour, travel to the selected program venue by public transport

Please, let us know in advance which guided tour you would like to attend!

14:30-16:00 Guided tour in the House of Terror

The House of Terror Museum - the only one of its kind - is a monument to the memory of those held captive, tortured and killed in this building. The Museum, while presenting the horrors in a tangible way, also intends to make people understand that the sacrifice for freedom was not in vain. Ultimately, the fight against the two cruellest systems of the 20th century ended with the victory of the forces of freedom and independence.

https://www.terrorhaza.hu/en/museum

Attendant: Tamás Szegedy-Kloska
Departure: together from the Dohány Street Synagogue

14:30-16:00 Guided tour in the Circles of the hell… „Malenki robot”- Forced labor in the Soviet Union exhibition

The new permanent exhibition site of the Hungarian National Museum "The Circles of Hell ... Malenki Robot - Forced Labor in the Soviet Union" commemorates the massive displacement of women and men after WW II. The nuclear-proof building at the Ferencváros Railway Station used to be a civil defence centre for the Hungarian State Railroads. Today the national Malenki Robot Memorial is located here. The exhibition presents the last days of WW II in Hungary, the painful everyday life of those experiencing forced labor and the bittersweet moments of homecoming through photographs, posters, memoirs by survivors.

https://mnm.hu/en/museums/mnm-malenkij-robot-emlekhely

Attendant: Szilvia Prikler
Departure: together from the Dohány Street Synagogue

16:00-18:00 free program

our colleagues help participants to get back to the hotel

18:30 Buses depart from the hotel to Szentendre for the opening party