Posts Tagged: Hungarian Jews
Hungarian Mass Honoring Nazi Ally Canceled After Jewish Protests
A Budapest church has called off a memorial mass it was planning to hold in honor of a former Hungarian leader and Nazi ally on...
Hungarian Jews Condemn Politician Over Planned Memorial for Nazi Ally Miklos Horthy
JNS.org - Hungary’s leading Jewish organizations on Wednesday condemned a senior Hungarian politician over his plan to deliver a speech at a ceremony honoring a Nazi ally on...
New Film ‘1945’ Explores Post-Holocaust Hungary and Local Collaboration Against the Jews
A new Hungarian film depicting the post-WWII attitude toward Jews in the country premiered last week in New York. The movie, "1945," is set one year after the...
The Fable of George Soros
JNS.org – George Soros, the Hungarian-American billionaire, has all the makings of a character in a Hasidic fable. Here is a man distrusted by many of his...
Photos of Nazi Victims Defaced at Holocaust Memorial in Hungarian Capital
A Budapest memorial to the Hungarian victims of the Holocaust was vandalized over the weekend, the Hungarian Free Press reported on Sunday. Images accompanying the report show...
Stalin Ordered ‘Liquidation’ of Raoul Wallenberg, Diary of KGB Chief Reveals
The 1945 disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg — a Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi gas chambers — ranks among the most...
Holocaust Survivors Sue Hungary in US Court Over Nazi Cooperation
JNS.org - Fourteen Hungarian Holocaust survivors have filed a class action lawsuit in the US against the Hungarian government and its national train company for cooperation...
US Outraged Over Planned Statue Honoring Antisemite in Hungary
JNS.org - Ira Forman, the official U.S. government envoy for monitoring and combating antisemitism, on Sunday expressed outrage over plans in Hungary to erect a statue...
Hungarian Jews Protest Planned Statue for WWII Politician Who Drafted Anti-Jewish Laws
Hungary's Jewish community protested against plans to erect a statue to a politician who played a role in drafting anti-Jewish laws during World War Two,...
‘Accountant of Auschwitz’ Trial Spectacle Sends Message to Future Generations
This week, in the German town of Lueneburg, a 93-year-old man went on trial accused of being an accessory to 300,000 murders. Whether you welcome the unedifying sight...
Jobbik Leader Remains a Holocaust Denier, Says Jewish Journalist and Holocaust Survivor
A prominent Jewish journalist and Holocaust survivor has disputed an assurance by the leader of one of Europe's most dangerous far right parties that he...
U.S. Reps. Urge Hungary to Scrap Controversial Holocaust Memorial
JNS.org - Jewish members of the U.S. House of Representatives are urging the Hungarian government to cancel plans to unveil a controversial memorial for...
Hungary’s Holocaust Controversy
This week, the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz) declared it would stay away from official commemorations marking the 70th"Ž"Ž anniversary of the deportation of 437,000 Jews...
Hundreds of Rabbis to Bolster Hungarian Jewry
JNS.org - Hundreds of rabbis from all over Europe are planning to travel to Hungary in March for a conference meant to strengthen the...
