It is Europe's shared responsibility to ensure future generations learn from the sins of the past, understand their context and reflect on their consequences, the deputy state secretary for civil and social relations, Vince Szalay-Bobrovniczky said, marking the Memorial Day of the Victims of the Hungarian Holocaust on Thursday. Speaking at the Holocaust Memorial Center, […]

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, "in the first place, we commemorate a Hungarian national tragedy, of which we were a part both with several hundred thousand innocent victims and having participated on the side of the perpetrators" the head of the Prime Minister's Office, Gergely Gulyás was quoted by MTI as saying at a commemoration […]

Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony inaugurated a memorial mark on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Holocaust on Boráros Square. The commemorative mark bears the names of the victims of the internment camp established on Csepel Island on the River Danube in the spring of 1944. The event featured a recitation by the actor […]

The March of the Living was held again this year in Budapest in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Thousands of people marched in the Hungarian capital to demonstrate against all forms of exclusion and prejudice. Speakers stressed the importance of remembrance, the responsibility of contemporaries and the role of education. As the Chairman […]