Hungary’s main Jewish group voted on Sunday to boycott official Holocaust commemorations this year unless they more clearly show the role of local citizens in the Nazi deportation and killing of ...
Jewish leaders in Budapest criticized the planned commemoration of victims of Germany’s occupation because it ignored Hungarians’ complicity in the Holocaust. The plan announced Thursday involves ...
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A planned new Holocaust museum in Budapest has divided Hungary's Jewish community and triggered international concerns that it will downplay the wartime role of Hungarians in the ...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, in which nearly half a million Hungarian Jews lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis, Tamás ...
Image Source: Holocaust Research Project For the past two centuries, the Jewish experience in Hungary, home to Europe’s largest synagogue, has been a mixture of extreme darkness and shining light. In ...
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A week after a leader of Hungary's far-right Jobbik party called for lists of prominent Jews to be drawn up to protect national security, Janos Fonagy stepped forward. "My mother ...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) – Right-wing extremists shout Nazi salutes and attack a man they believe is Jewish. Black-booted militants frighten aging Holocaust survivors. Writings of authors linked to a ...
As the world prepares to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday, Hungarian Jews find themselves divided in a bitter dispute over the long-delayed opening of a new Holocaust museum in ...
Hundreds of Hungarian Jews have denounced the Israeli government over its war in Gaza — and the groups that purport to represent them at home, where protests against Israel are largely banned. “The ...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) – As a rising star in Hungary’s far-right Jobbik Party, Csanad Szegedi was notorious for his incendiary comments on Jews: He accused them of “buying up” the country, railed ...
REFILES to clarify family members in para 2. Pictures by Attila Kisbenedek. Video by Balazs Wizner Rabbi Mendel Moscowitz from the northeastern city of Kharkiv never imagined his family would be ...