During my study abroad experience I’ve had the opportunity to enjoy many different opportunities which has allowed me to grow my learning and understanding of the world. One experience in particular that has stood out above all other experiences is my afternoon at the House of Terror. This tour took me through various rooms portraying the history and story of the holocaust era in Hungary. This tour offered amazing insight through numerous sources including pictures, videos, artifacts and documents. It also offered the opportunity to see where some of the most gruesome portrayals of human cruelty took place as The House of Terror was set inside the exact building where thousands of people were held captive, tortured and executed. Although the three above-ground floors in the tour provided widespread information, by far the most profound experience during the tour took place in the underground cellar. In the basement, it was kept almost completely in its original form as when it was used for the grotesque treatment of the victims. The rooms were extremely desolate and ranged from holding cells to padded rooms to execution chambers. This profound experience stuck with me the most due to the magnitude of brutality and inhumanness that occurred in the very rooms where I was standing to the point where I could touch the exact surfaces that the confined and tortured had touched before me. Never will I ever forget this experience, and I will have a lot to tell family and friends back home of what I saw and learned.
Below is a picture of one of the rooms in the cellar of The House of Terror which had padded lining throughout the entire interior.
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