This is our entry in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Trees.
The Raul Wallenberg Memorial Garden, behind the Great Synagogue (Dohany Street Synagogue) in Budapest, Hungary, is the site of the Holocaust Tree of Life Memorial. We visited it in April on a dreary, rainy day, which seemed appropriate for this emotional memorial.
Holocaust Tree of Life Memorial
Created in the form of a weeping willow tree, the memorial records the names of thousands of Holocaust victims on its stainless steel leaves.
Holocaust Tree of Life Memorial Leaves
The Memorial Garden is located at the World War II entrance to the Budapest Ghetto, where 6000 Jews were buried in a mass grave. That huge number is only 1% of the 600,000 Hungarian Jews who perished during the Holocaust.
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