President Tamás Sulyok commemorated the victims of the Holocaust at a visit to the Auschwitz memorial site and museum on Saturday.
Sulyok laid a wreath at the "Death Wall", where thousands of people were executed by firing squad during the Second World War. He lit a candle in commemoration of the Hungarian victims of the holocaust in Camp 1 and at the Hungarian-language plaque at Camp 2.
In the guest book, Sulyok wrote: "I came because all Hungarians should come here once, so they can see what human evil can do. We can't forget or replace the lives destroyed here. Many of them were my compatriots, one of us. Walking among the barracks, I feel that pain or sadness is not enough. We need a determined commitment to good and against evil. We can't let any more people be taken away from us."