Memento

During the Second World War, on June 15, 1944 – as a culmination of the Jewish laws previously enacted in the city – the ghetto that had been set up in the area of the former Fő Street synagogue, Bacsák Street and Csillag Street, with approximately 3,000 Jewish citizens crowded there, was driven to the railway station and, packed into sixty cattle cars, deported to death camps in inhumane conditions. ; On the darkest day in the city's history, Dunaszerdahely lost half of its former population: after the war, only about six hundred people returned from the camps – mostly men… Almost none of the young children, who made up more than half of those sent to their deaths, returned: they were murdered without exception. ; In October 1991, the Memento Holocaust Memorial was inaugurated in memory of the former Jewish community of Dunaszerdahely, a stone tablet-torso depicting the Ten Commandments being broken and burned, under which we can see the footprints of the former victims. ; The monument stands on the site of the former famous Orthodox synagogue. ; ;