You walk down the River Road…..in Mukacevo (Munkacs) – Czechoslovakia between the wars, Hungary before that,  occupied by Hungary during WWII, now in the Ukraine, nestling in the Carpathian Mountains……

Where my father came from, and where he lived in this house with his family:

 

You walk down the River Road, which leads to the River Latorska, where my father and his brothers would jump off the bridge and swim….

 

From the town centre ….

…… from the municipality …..

 

….the Town Centre

 

Where there’s a fabulous art deco cinema  (some of the earliest talkies were Hungarian)….

…and a theatre…

So you walk down the River Road….

….and there on the left, on a pink wall is a Memorial Plaque. In Ukrainian & Hebrew, the following is written:

“In the year 1944 thousands of Jews were led from here on their last journey to death.”