In honor of her late Father, Tony Curtis, Jamie Lee Curtis is restoring her grandparents’ hometown synagogue in Mateszalka, Hungary. She announced that she will partner with the mayor of Mateszalka to turn the synagogue into “ a community center for celebrations and art and music.” She wrote on her Instagram account that the synagogue “is empty now, as the entire Jewish population was exterminated, but the building stands as a living tribute to those who lived there and continue to live there.”

The Curtis family synagogue in Mateszalka was built in 1857, and developed a rich history within the town’s Jewish community, the online magazine Kveller said. According to The Times of Israel, when the Nazis invaded in 1944, the Jews were rounded up and sent in cattle cars to Auschwitz, where the majority of them perished. Following the war, some 150 survivors returned to Mateszalka, but after the failed Hungarian Revolution in 1956, many of the remaining Jews immigrated to North America or Israel.