Glass House (Budapest)

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Memorial plaque on the side of the glass house

The so-called glass house ( Hungarian : Üvegház ) at Vadász utca 29 in the 5th district of Budapest is a building that served as accommodation for Jews persecuted in Hungary during the Holocaust from the summer of 1944 and was under the protection of the Swiss envoy Carl Lutz .

Arthur Weiss' Jewish factory owner had a commercial and residential building built in the 1920s. The architect was Lajos Kozma, who designed the glass house in the Bauhaus style. The glass staircase designed in different colors is well known.

From the summer of 1944, Carl Lutz used the glass house as the seat for the “Emigration Section for Palestine”. Within two days, 2,000 people were quartered there. Thousands of Jewish people seeking help queued in front of the glass house every day to receive a letter of protection from the Swiss embassy.

Since 2005 the glass house has housed a memorial room for this rescue operation. Various memorabilia, photos and official documents are displayed there.

Web links

Commons : Glass House (Budapest)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hanno Plass: The glass house in Budapest. April 30, 2010, accessed January 7, 2015 .
  2. ↑ NZZ article from June 30, 1961: Carl Lutz: The persecution of Jews under Hitler in Hungary. (PDF) June 30, 1961, accessed January 7, 2015 .
  3. ^ A b Agnes Hirschi: Carl Lutz and the Jewish Resistance in Hungary: A memorial room opened in Budapest. NZZ, May 13, 2005, accessed on January 7, 2015 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 30 ′ 20.5 ″  N , 19 ° 3 ′ 13.1 ″  E