Budapest: Day 3

Our first stop on our third day in Budapest was the Danube, where there is a Holocaust memorial. The memorial is dozens of iron-casted shoes, to represent the thousands of Hungarian Jews who were shot into the Danube during the Second World War.

We maintained a Holocaust theme for the morning, and trekked to the new Holocaust Memorial Center. After an hour or two in the museum, we met with Gabrielle, an employee of Judapest (a grass roots online community aiming to uncover the stimulating, the relevent, and the cool in the Hungarian Jewish experience) who spoke about Contemporary Anti-Semitism in Hungary.

We ate lunch at one of the few kosher restaurants in the city, and heard from Mirca Chernov, who works for Chaver, an organization which organizes and conducts open discussions and lectures to fight prejudice and misconceptions about Jews and Judaism.

I took a brief nap, before going with Dorot to an authentically Hungarian modern dance performance. It was powerful, emotional, beautiful, and - oh, did I forget to mention? - very naked.

We grabbed a late dinner at a cafe before crashing for the night.