Seven top Communist Party officials, along with members of the Jewish community, attended a ceremony several days ago commemorating the Russian liberation of Jews from the Budapest “ghetto” in World War II. In what some observers called a rare happening in Communist countries, the party officials accompanied the group to the synagogue of Budapest, where the ceremony ended. Released when the Red Army arrived, Jews had been confined to the downtown Budapest “ghetto” and were going to be put on trains and deported to German camps.
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