(JTA) — Divers from Israel’s ZAKA Search and Rescue will begin to search the Danube River in Hungary for the remains of Jewish Holocaust victims. The work, which was scheduled to begin on Tuesday, comes nearly 75 years after tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews in October 1944 were shot on the banks of the…
Thousands of people took to the streets of Hungary to protest the government’s harsh new legislation being called the “slave law,” and Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros is being accused of funding the marches in his native country, The Guardian reported. About 10,000 people marched through Budapest to the parliament building in objection to the measure,…
The university founded and funded by Jewish billionaire George Soros is being forced out of Hungary by the far-right government, Forbes reported. It will move its programs to Vienna. Central European University was founded after the collapse of the Soviet Union to promote principles of democracy and free society. It is being kicked off of…
(JTA) – Hungary’s controversial Holocaust museum will open next year despite opposition by some in the Jewish community to its premise and staff, according to a government statement. Gergely Gulyás, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office, said Friday at a news conference that the House of Fates will open in Budapest in 2019, four…
(JTA) — A soccer club in Budapest honored in one of its matches a local Holocaust victim murdered by Hungarian collaborators. The Ferencváros Torna Club dedicated a match Thursday to István Tóth. The match was against Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv at the Groupama Stadium in Budapest. The game was a tie with each team scoring…
It’s not every week that the Israeli state Holocaust memorial of Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) issue statements rebuking the Prime Minister of Israel for distorting the historical record of one of the greatest tragedies ever to befall the Jewish people. But it did happen last week. What provoked this…
Israeli intelligence firm Black Cube was instrumental in a smear campaign against liberal NGOs ahead of Hungary’s elections in April, Politico reported Saturday, citing two sources, including a former Black Cube employee. Soon before the election in which Prime Minister Viktor Orban won another term, a Hungarian magazine published a list of more than 200…
TRNAVA, Slovakia (JTA) — Growing up, Robert Sajtlava remembers playing near what used to be his native city’s Orthodox Synagogue. A rectangular structure with a deceptively unimpressive facade, its ornate ceiling and interior walls suffered extensive damage from the precipitation leaking through the roof and, occasionally, by trespassers who came through the rickety fence. “It…
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