Hungary’s main Jewish group voted on Sunday to boycott official Holocaust commemorations this year unless they more clearly show the role of local citizens in the Nazi deportation and killing of ...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian Jewish leaders said on Tuesday they may stay away from commemorations of the Holocaust in 2014 because of resurgent anti-Semitism in a nation that has struggled to come ...

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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, in which nearly half a million Hungarian Jews lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis, Tamás ...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A planned new Holocaust museum in Budapest has divided Hungary's Jewish community and triggered international concerns that it will downplay the wartime role of Hungarians in the ...

Image Source: Holocaust Research Project For the past two centuries, the Jewish experience in Hungary, home to Europe’s largest synagogue, has been a mixture of extreme darkness and shining light. In ...

Hungary was on Germany’s side during the war, but Adolf Hitler became suspicious that Hungary was looking to exit the conflict and reach a peace deal with the Allied forces. After the invasion, SS ...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A week after a leader of Hungary's far-right Jobbik party called for lists of prominent Jews to be drawn up to protect national security, Janos Fonagy stepped forward. "My mother ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) – Right-wing extremists shout Nazi salutes and attack a man they believe is Jewish. Black-booted militants frighten aging Holocaust survivors. Writings of authors linked to a ...

Donald Trump has nominated New York-based businessman Benjamin Landa to be the next US ambassador to Hungary, independent 444.hu writes, citing a report by the Washington Post, based on data published ...