Posts Tagged: Hungary holocaust
US Supreme Court Takes Up Germany’s Appeal in Nazi Art Dispute
The US Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear Germany's bid to block it from facing a lawsuit in American court over medieval artwork that...
Scottish Rescuer of Jewish Children From Holocaust to Be Honored in Budapest
A church missionary from Scotland who traveled to Hungary to help Jewish schoolchildren during the Second World War will be commemorated this weekend at a...
Hungarian Jews Examine Long-Lost Identity, and a JCC Is There to Help Them
JNS.org - Many Jews in Hungary are discovering their roots for the first time since the end of Communist rule in 1989, and the only...
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...
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...
The Most Important Lesson From Hungary’s Jewish Past
When my father died, he left me his prayer books and a beautifully bound tabletop book, entitled “The Gold Album”- printed in Budapest, Hungary, in 1938. Feeling nostalgic, I recently...
Despite Anti-Semitism, Hungarian Camp Shows Signs of Vibrant Jewish Life
JNS.org - The 70-year-old, post-Holocaust taboo of expressing anti-Semitic views started to break down over the last several years in Hungary, where 100,000 Jews...
Why the Jews Must Leave Hungary (and Europe)
It is time for Europe's able-bodied Jews to start thinking about relocating to places where their safety will be less endangered than in countries that...
70 Years After Hungarian Holocaust, Historian Protests Planned Memorial (INTERVIEW)
JNS.org - This year Hungary is commemorating the 70th anniversary of the deportation of more than 430,000 Hungarian Jews to concentration camps during the...
American Jews Must Wake Up to Anti-Semitism of Hungary’s Jobbik Party
JNS.org - When one in five people in a key European state votes for a neo-Nazi party, you might expect a furious response from...
Planned Holocaust Monument Angers Hungarian Jewish Groups
JNS.org - The Hungarian government is planning to erect a memorial statue in honor of the country's 1944 Nazi occupation. Hungarian Jewish critics view...
Commemoration of Hungarian Nazi Collaborator Draws Protest
JNS.org - Nearly 1,000 protestors took to the streets in Budapest to decry the far-right Jobbik party's unveiling of a statue of Hungarian wartime...
Jewish History of Budapest: A Day Trip to a Golden Age
JNS.org - Budapest is the 25th most-visited city in the world, and it's easy to understand why, with its amazing architecture, its enormous World Heritage Site,...
Hungarian Government Develops Program to Counter Country’s Rising Anti-Semitism
The Hungarian government has prepared a comprehensive program which it hopes can begin to reverse the trend of rising anti-Semitism in the country,...