Hungarian Jews commemorated the 50th anniversary of the liberation of S Auschwitz at a recent ceremony at the headquarters of the Budapest Jewish SJL community.
Zoltan Gal, the speaker of the Hungarian Parliament, represented the government at the ceremonies.
Hungarian President Arpad Goncz was scheduled to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Hungarian Jewish Martyrs in a separate ceremony.
Ninety percent of Hungary’s Jews, some 438,000 people, were exterminated at the Auschwitz death camp complex between April and August 1944.
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