Budapest wartime cave hospital opens to public

By: Hungary Around the Clock
2008-03-20 09:40

The Sziklakórház, a hospital under Buda Castle during World War II, is open to the public for the first time since it closed in 1945.

 

The 3,600m2 facility began operations in May 1944 with its own power generator and air ventilation system. Though originally capable of holding 220 patients, 600 were squeezed in, and thousands of wounded soldiers and civilians fleeing the fighting fled to the hospital during the siege of Budapest in 1944-45.

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