(9 May 2004)
1. People arriving outside synagogue (locals and visitors)
2. Man singing "How beautiful your tent is, Israel"
3. Audience
4. Catholic, reformed, and Greek catholic priests in pew
5. Man listening to song
6. Close-up man listening to song
7. Wide interior of synagogue
8. SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew) Rabbi Laszlo Deutsch, (whose father was Mad''s last rabbi)
"May the eternal one bless and protect all of you, may He radiate his face towards you, and may He have mercy on you, and may He grant you, all of us, peace."
9. Rabbi and others praying, pan to martyrs'' plaque
10. Women in audience
11. Women watching from upstairs
12. Close-up old man listening to prayers
13. Wide of people leaving after dedication
14. Outside, same
15. SOUNDBITE: (Hungarian) Viktor Lowy, Holocaust Survivor from Mad:
"They took my father from this synagogue and I stayed alive in Budapest."
16. Jewish cemetery in Mad
17. Grave stones, Viktor Lowy and granddaughters walking by
18. SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew) Ester Avital, Viktor Lowy''s Granddaughter:
"It makes me stronger to see the synagogue revealed, you feel history, and it''s just - unbelievably painful."
19. Various shots, interior of synagogue
20. STILL photo of synagogue before restoration
21. SOUNDBITE: (Hungarian) Viktor Lowy, Holocaust Survivor from Mad
"A question is left open: why? Why did they renovate the synagogue? And if this will just be a house of prayer and not also a house that evokes better times and, as they say in Hebrew, "Shalom," or peace, then all it will be is a cold monument."
22. Close-up votive candles before martyr''s plaque (directly under the Lowy family name)
STORYLINE
The Nazi Holocaust swept away two-thirds of the nearly one (m) million Jews who lived in Hungary on the eve of World War II, and many of those who survived fled during the 1956 uprising against Soviet rule after realising the communists were just as determined to stamp out their religion.
Sixty years after the Holocaust, the Hungarian village of Mad rededicated its Baroque style synagogue on Sunday.
In ruins after years of neglect, the synagogue was once the house of worship for Mad''s Jewish population - until 90 percent of them died after they were deported to Auschwitz.
Rabbi Laszlo Deutsch blessed the synagogue and the congregation.
His father was the last rabbi in Mad before he and his congregation were killed by the Nazis.
Mad is a town 220 kilometres (130 miles) east of Budapest, and was once a centre of Jewish learning.
But now, there are no Jews left here, so its synagogue will rarely be used as a temple.
Other synagogues renovated in Hungary have been turned into cultural centres with exhibitions on Jewish life before the war, but there are a few that are used by Jewish congregations.
Viktor Lowy, who now lives in Israel, was living in Budapest in 1944 when the Nazis rounded up his family - along with most of Mad''s Jewish population - before deporting them.
He brought his granddaughters - who don''t speak Hungarian but know the country''s history from their grandfather - to see the rededication of the synagogue where his family worshiped for generations.
The Lowy family''s name can be seen on the martyrs'' wall inside the temple.
At the end of the 19th century, more than 800 Jews lived in Mad and made up nearly 30 percent of the town''s population.
They arrived in the 1700s from Galicia, a region now split between Poland and Ukraine.
Most were traders, buying and selling Mad''s wines throughout central Europe.
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