Three Hungarian officers charged with torturing and murdering Jewish forced laborers were hanged publicly this week after being convicted by the Peoples’ Tribunal in Budapest, the London Jewish Chronicle reports today. They were the first of a group of Hungarian war criminals charged with murdering Jews.
The report says that heart-breaking scenes took place in Budapest when the bodies of 5,141 murdered Jews were disinterred from the ruins of the Hungarian capital and re-buried in accordance with Jewish ritual. The majority of these Jews were killed by the Gestapo and by members of the Hungarian pro-Nazi Arrow Cross party.
The first conference of rabbis to be held in Hungary since the liberation of Budapest opened this week in Hiklosi under the chairmanship of Rabbi Israel Tabakman of Budapest. Twenty-one rabbis discussed problems connected with the re-establishment of Jewish religious and communal life, including the re-building of destoyed synagogues and the re-opening of Jewish orthodox schools which were closed when Hungary joined the Axis.
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