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March of the Living remembers Holocaust victims
This year’s march paid tribute to the memory of forced laborers. Over 100,000 Jews and non-Jews from Hungary were used as forced laborers from 1939, and 60,000 of them didn’t...
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Barnabás Tóth’s post-Holocaust drama nominated for Oscars’ International Feature Film category
The Hungarian Oscar Committee has chosen director Barnabás Tóth’s post-Holocaust drama "Those Who Remained" as its official entry into the Oscars’ International Feature Film category.
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Hungary remembers victims of the Holocaust
Hungarians remembered victims of the Holocaust up and down the country on April 16th, the day when occupying German forces began establishing ghettos in Hungary
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Hungary’s oldest Holocaust survivor dies at the age of 106
Born on August 24th, 1912, Elemér Spiegler trained as a shoemaker and was enrolled in the Hungarian Army in 1935
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Israeli divers to search the Danube River for remains of Holocaust victims
Sándor Pintér, the Hungarian interior minister agreed to allow rescuers from the Zaka emergency service and victim identification organization to scour the river for bones of Jews who were shot and thrown into the waters of the Danube in Budapest during the Holocaust
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House of Fates coming to Hungary next year to mark the 75th anniversary of the Holocaust
The government will be establishing the House of Fates in cooperation with the Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation (EMIH) and the Public Foundation for the Research of Central and Eastern European History and Society.
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Hungarians will go to Auschwitz-Birkenau to take part in the first Roma March of the Living
45 participants will attend a commemoration at the Roma Holocaust Memorial in Budapest on August 1st
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Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Day marked up and down the country
Members of the municipal government and the clergy marked the occasion at the House of Terror in Budapest yesterday
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Hungary remembers the heroes of the Roma Holocaust
In the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the Roma rebelled against the SS soldiers keeping them in captivity on 16 May 1944
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PM Netanyahu to PM Orbán: ‘Thank you for standing up for Israel’ at the forefront of opposition to this new anti-Semitism
During a historic visit – the first of a head of government of Israel in 30 years – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for “standing up for Israel in international forums,” and the Hungarian prime minister delivered a sharp rebuke of the failure of Hungary to defend its Jewish citizens during World War II, saying the country had sinned.
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Hungarian government has zero tolerance for anti-Semitism
“We will continue to protect the Jewish community in future against any and all attacks of an anti-Semitic nature and against any attempts to endanger or discriminate against Hungary’s Jewish community,” Hungary's foreign minister said
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Frans Timmermans must respect the dignity of Holocaust victims
Political debates can get nasty. A certain amount of give-and-take comes with the territory, and as a spokesperson, I’ve experienced it firsthand. There are red lines that should not be crossed, though, and assailing the dignity of the victims of mass genocide crosses the brightest of them. Every reasonable person, including European Commission Vice President Timmermans, should know that no matter how deep the political disagreement, Holocaust victims should not be exploited as weapons in such a fight.
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Hungary honors 72nd anniversary of the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp
Hungary wishes to make constructive efforts to heal the visible and invisible scars of the Holocaust and World War II together