The Report of the Directorate of the Hungarian National Jewish Museum

Fülöp Grünwald

1943

Any public Jewish institution that is inextricably tied to the greater Jewish community can only express its deep sorrow as it looks back over the past year. Hundreds of thousands of our brethren, the Jewry of entire countries, have been destroyed in Europe during the past cruel year of war. We read in Josephus Flavius’ writings that at the siege…

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Fülöp Grünwald

1887–1964

Born in Sopron, Hungary, historian Fülöp Grünwald was a teacher in the Jewish community of Pest and served as deputy director of the Hungarian Jewish Museum in Budapest. During World War II, Grünwald deposited Jewish liturgical objects and books into a bank in the city; these items were ultimately looted. After the war, Grünwald served as head of the history department of the rabbinical seminary in Budapest.

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