BUDAPEST — Hundreds protested in downtown Budapest against a vandalism attack on a memorial to the nearly 600,000 victims of the Holocaust in Hungary. The unknown vandals tore photographs on display at Liberty Square and damaged or removed objects donated to the Living Memorial by survivors and their descendants. The memorial is located opposite a…
— A court in Budapest has ordered the temporary blocking of about 20 websites that carry Holocaust denial material. The sites sell the Hungarian edition of a book by a Swedish author that denies that the Nazis committed genocide and makes excerpts available to read on-line, Budapest chief prosecutor Tibor Ibolya said Tuesday, Hungary Today…
– The president of Hungary’s main Jewish umbrella organization, Mazsihisz, has returned a high state award to protest the same award being presented to a nationalist journalist described as racist and anti-Semitic. In a Facebook post, Andras Heisler, who is also a vice president of the World Jewish Congress, said he was returning the Knight’s…
Two plaques put up in the village of Mád last month commemorate the important role Jewish families played in making Hungary’s golden Tokaj wine, most of whom perished in the Holocaust. The plaques mark another step in Hungary on a painful journey in coming to terms with the treatment of its Jews during World War…
More than seven decades after losing their beloved Hungarian winery to the Nazis, the Zimmerman family is celebrating a small, if belated, victory. On June 24, six descendants of Holocaust survivors Miklos and Blanka Zimmerman unveiled two modest plaques in front of the headquarters of the famed Royal Tokaji wineries in northeastern Hungary recognizing their…
Hungarian soccer fans are reportedly being investigated for performing Nazi salutes during a match at the Euro 2016 soccer tournament in France. Black-shirted Hungary fans were captured making the salutes during their national team’s match with Iceland on Saturday in Marseille, the British Daily Mail newspaper reported.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3648911/Now-Ultra-fans-caught-doing-NAZI-salutes-Euro-2016-Hungarian-supporters-sick-gestures-match-saw-fans-battle-stewards-stands.html) “The pictures are clearly very shocking,” a police…
One week after my 85-year-old grandmother died, I learned that she had abandoned her first child and kept her son a secret for decades. A senior in college, I was jarred by the news. I’d spent nearly every day with Grandma Daisy as a kid growing up in Connecticut. While my parents worked, she sang…
Budapest (Reuters)- Miklos Heisler was 17 when the Arrow Cross Party took power in Hungary in the final years of World War Two and began a short reign of terror in which thousands of Jews, previously spared from deportation, were killed in Budapest. But Heisler was young and careless, and Arrow Cross paramilitary members caught…
