It's late, and I'm very tired but, we're trying to decide about whether to take an apartment in Budapest, soon to be our new home.
It's a big place, the apartment itself is well restored, some beautiful architectural details, original hardwood floors, interior courtyard, though, much of the building needs renovation - the common areas have clearly not been touched in over 40 years.
I was curious about a building across the street - it seemed sort of emptyish but not altogether abandoned.
I typed in the address of our unit and searched on Google maps to see if anything came up across the street. Nothing on the map directly.
I searched on just the street name of our address, again on Google maps, and this time I added the word 'terror.' When I came out of our (potential) building last week, I saw a plaque on this other curious building - the engraving was entirely in Hungarian - except I could make out the word 'terror.'
I found out what this place was just now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_House_(Budapest)
Here is one photo to give you an idea:
http://itthon.hu/site/upload/2009/10/Kivandorlasra%20jelentkezok%201944-ben.jpg
It is actually a hopeful story from the time of WWII and the slaughter of so many Jews. But, still, somehow, the unexpected discovery of this in my daily life saddened me greatly.
