commemoration - Diplomacy & Trade https://dteurope.com Monthly in print | Daily on the web Mon, 12 May 2025 15:34:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://dteurope.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-dt_favicon-32x32.png commemoration - Diplomacy & Trade https://dteurope.com 32 32 The March of the Living Held in Budapest https://dteurope.com/news/the-march-of-the-living-held-in-budapest/ Sun, 11 May 2025 19:25:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=73794 The March of the Living was held in Budapest this Sunday, with participants of the 21st annual walk commemorating the victims of the Holocaust marching from the Shoes on the Bank of the Danube monument to Várkert Bazaar via the Chain Bridge, MTI reported. Andor Grósz, President of the Association of Jewish Communities in Hungary […]

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]]> March of the Living Held in Budapest https://dteurope.com/history/march-of-the-living-held-in-budapest/ Sun, 05 May 2024 18:54:22 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=70154 The annual March of the Living event was held in Budapest this Sunday. Participants in the 20th annual walk in memory of the victims of the Holocaust marched from the Dohány Street Synagogue to the square in front of Keleti Railway Station, where speakers commemorated the terrorist attack on Israel on October 7 last year, […]

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]]> Football Legend Ferenc Puskás Commemorated in Budapest https://dteurope.com/sports/football-legend-ferenc-puskas-commemorated-in-budapest/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:46:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=54655 A commemoration ceremony was held at the stadium named after the world-famous Hungarian footballer Puskás Ferenc on Monday to mark the 20th anniversary of the naming ceremony of the Puskás Arena. At the event, Hungarian State Secretary for Sport, Ádám Schmidt, quoted Brazilian football star Pelé who had said that Puskás would have been the […]

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]]> 3rd Anniversary of the Danube Tourist Boat Tragedy https://dteurope.com/anniversary/3rd-anniversary-of-the-danube-tourist-boat-tragedy/ Sun, 29 May 2022 16:36:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=51235 A memorial service was held on the third anniversary of the tragedy of the Hableány (‘Mermaid’)  river cruise boat on Sunday in Budapest, at the memorial to the victims of the disaster at the Pest end of Margaret Bridge, where Péter András Sztáray, Minister of State for Security Policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs […]

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]]> Raoul Wallenberg Commemoration in Budapest https://dteurope.com/history/raoul-wallenberg-commemoration-in-budapest/ Mon, 17 Jan 2022 18:10:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=46921 We must not give in to the temptation to forget, as "common remembrance is the future of all of us," András Heisler, the President of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Hungary (Mazsihisz), said at a commemoration ceremony on Monday to mark the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Budapest ghetto and the disappearance […]

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]]> March of the Living in Budapest https://dteurope.com/news/march-of-the-living-in-budapest-2/ Sun, 13 May 2018 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/march-of-the-living-in-budapest-2/ In commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust, thousands of people walked across the river Danube and along the embankment of the river in the traditional 'March of the Living'. Speakers of the event talked about the importance of rememberance.

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]]> Smolensk memorial in Budapest https://dteurope.com/news/smolensk-memorial-in-budapest/ Thu, 05 Apr 2018 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/smolensk-memorial-in-budapest/ A memorial to the former Polish president Lech Kaczyñski and the other victims of the Smolensk (Russia) tragedy in 2010 was unveiled in Budapest this Friday in the presence of Jaroslaw Kaczyñski, the brother of Lech Kaczynski.

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]]> March of the Living https://dteurope.com/news/march-of-the-living/ Sat, 15 Apr 2017 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/march-of-the-living/ Thousands of people participated in the 'March of the Living', commemorating the victims of the Holocaust in Budapest this Sunday afternoon, remembering the 550,000 Hungarian Jews who died during the Holocaust.

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]]> Puskás remembered in Madrid https://dteurope.com/news/puskas-remembered-in-madrid/ Wed, 16 Nov 2016 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/puskas-remembered-in-madrid/ Ten years after his death, and coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, the figure of Ferenc Puskás was the object of an emotional tribute that took place on Monday at the stadium where he concluded his legend.

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]]> March of the Living in Budapest https://dteurope.com/news/march-of-the-living-in-budapest/ Sat, 16 Apr 2016 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/march-of-the-living-in-budapest/ Thousands marched in the streets of the Hungarian capital Sunday to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. The march is the largest civic demonstration against racism, anti-Semitism and neo-Nazi and anti-democratic movements in Hungary.

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]]> Painting in the memory of Paris victims https://dteurope.com/news/painting-in-the-memory-of-paris-victims/ Mon, 04 Apr 2016 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/painting-in-the-memory-of-paris-victims/ A painting made jointly by Hungarian artist László Albert and French artist Marie-Claude Eisenbeth-Combeau to commemorate the victims of the terror attacks in Paris last November has been presented in Kaposvár, western Hungary this Tuesday.

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]]> Hungary committed to fight anti-Semitism https://dteurope.com/news/hungary-committed-to-fight-anti-semitism/ Thu, 28 Jan 2016 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/hungary-committed-to-fight-anti-semitism/ Hungary is fully committed to the fight against anti-Semitism, and takes a zero tolerance stance against anti-Semitic manifestations, Hungarian state secretary Szabolcs Takács pointed out at the UN ceremony held in remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust.

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]]> Real Madrid minute of silence for widow of Puskás https://dteurope.com/news/real-madrid-minute-of-silence-for-widow-of-puskas/ Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/real-madrid-minute-of-silence-for-widow-of-puskas/ Players wore black armbands paying respect - along with spectators - in the the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid Tuesday night to the memory of Erzsébet Hunyadvári, the widow of legendary Hungarian footballer Ferenc Puskás. She passed away last week.

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]]> Government holds 'Day of National Unity' https://dteurope.com/politics/government-holds-day-of-national-unity/ Wed, 03 Jun 2015 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/government-holds-day-of-national-unity/ The Day of National Unity, according to the intentions of the current Hungarian government that introduced in 2010, marks the signing of the Treaty of Trianon that - following Hungary being on the losing side in World War I - reduced the country in size and population.

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]]> Glory to the Jewish Heroes of the Great War https://dteurope.com/news/glory-to-the-jewish-heroes-of-the-great-war/ Sun, 25 Jan 2015 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/glory-to-the-jewish-heroes-of-the-great-war/ As part of the commemorations related to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day of January 27, a ceremony was held - with the participation of dignitaries - to mark the renovation of WWI graves in the Kozma Street Jewish Cemetery in Budapest.

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