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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) \u2014 Hungary\u2019s Jewish community on Sunday commemorated the 75th anniversary of the liberation by Soviet troops of the Budapest ghetto, where over 70,000 Jews were confined near the end of World War II.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While some 550,000 Hungarian Jews were killed during the Holocaust in Nazi-run death camps, in forced labor battalions or by the Nazis\u2019 Hungarian allies, many Budapest Jews survived the war. Many were forced into the ghetto, others hid around the city under assumed identities or were helped by sympathetic foreign diplomats like Sweden\u2019s Raoul Wallenberg.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of people attended the commemoration at Budapest\u2019s Dohany Street Synagogue, the largest in Europe, including Holocaust survivors, diplomats and politicians.<\/p>\n

Robert Frolich, the synagogue\u2019s chief rabbi, spoke of \u201cambivalent feelings\u201d surrounding the commemoration, which contains pain and mourning, but also the \u201ccelebration of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSeventy-five years ago, Europe\u2019s last ghetto, the Budapest ghetto, was liberated. This is what we remember today,\u201d Frolich said. \u201cAmbivalent feelings gather inside us, because the reason for the event, the liberation of the ghetto, is itself ambivalent.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/figure>\n

\u201cIt contains pain, it contains tragedy and the mourning which cannot be put into words, which is unspeakable and can only be experienced. At the same time, it contains joy, relief and the celebration of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jews were forced to move into the ghetto, set up over more than 20 city blocks in Budapest\u2019s traditional Jewish quarter, from the end of November 1944.<\/p>\n

Enclosed with wooden planks and brick walls, conditions in the ghetto during the cold winter were inhumane. Residents faced mass starvation and disease. Thousands of dead bodies had to be lined up at a square after the ghetto\u2019s designated burial areas were full.<\/p>\n

According to historians, by the end of 1945 the deaths of some 14,000 people could be attributed to the conditions in the Budapest ghetto \u2014 either those who died there or those who became sick there and passed away in the months following its liberation on Jan. 18, 1945.<\/p>\n

Around 420,000 of the Hungarian Jews killed during the Holocaust were residents of countryside cities and villages. They were deported from their homes by rail to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps in less than two months in mid-1944.<\/p>\n

<\/figure>\n

Tamas Mester, president of the Budapest Jewish Community, spoke of growing responsibilities to remember the suffering.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs time passes, our duty strengthens to guard the memory of the victims and oppose the growing pressure of forgetting,\u201d Mester said. \u201cAt the same time, it is an important task to help and care for the survivors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yakov Hadas-Handelsman, Israel\u2019s ambassador to Hungary, mentioned Hungarian Jews who chose to stay in Hungary instead of immigrating to Israel or elsewhere after the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

\u2033(They) had to face, for decades, the constant hardship of communism following the war. But against all odds, they managed to plant the seeds of Jewish identity for the next generations, who by now make Jewish life in Hungary and elsewhere flourishing once again,\u201d Hadas-Handelsman said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis does not mean that the dangers and the threats that Jews were facing before completely disappeared. As the Hungarian proverb says, \u2018Evil never sleeps,\u2019\u201d the ambassador added. \u201cToday, 75 years after the Holocaust, worldwide anti-Semitism is unfortunately on the rise again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vince Szalay-Bobrovniczky, deputy state secretary for civil society relations, said despite the Holocaust, Budapest now has a \u201cconsiderable community\u201d of Jews.<\/p>\n

\u201cFacing up to its past, Hungary is united in the interests of preventing any people belonging to a national, ethnic, racial or religious minority from suffering grievances,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

(Breitbart<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) \u2014 Hungary\u2019s Jewish community on Sunday commemorated the 75th anniversary of the liberation by Soviet troops of the Budapest ghetto, where over 70,000 Jews were confined near the end of World War II.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While some 550,000 Hungarian Jews were killed during the Holocaust in Nazi-run death camps, in forced labor battalions or by the Nazis\u2019 Hungarian allies, many Budapest Jews survived the war. Many were forced into the ghetto, others hid around the city under assumed identities or were helped by sympathetic foreign diplomats like Sweden\u2019s Raoul Wallenberg.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of people attended the commemoration at Budapest\u2019s Dohany Street Synagogue, the largest in Europe, including Holocaust survivors, diplomats and politicians.<\/p>\n

Robert Frolich, the synagogue\u2019s chief rabbi, spoke of \u201cambivalent feelings\u201d surrounding the commemoration, which contains pain and mourning, but also the \u201ccelebration of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSeventy-five years ago, Europe\u2019s last ghetto, the Budapest ghetto, was liberated. This is what we remember today,\u201d Frolich said. \u201cAmbivalent feelings gather inside us, because the reason for the event, the liberation of the ghetto, is itself ambivalent.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/figure>\n

\u201cIt contains pain, it contains tragedy and the mourning which cannot be put into words, which is unspeakable and can only be experienced. At the same time, it contains joy, relief and the celebration of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jews were forced to move into the ghetto, set up over more than 20 city blocks in Budapest\u2019s traditional Jewish quarter, from the end of November 1944.<\/p>\n

Enclosed with wooden planks and brick walls, conditions in the ghetto during the cold winter were inhumane. Residents faced mass starvation and disease. Thousands of dead bodies had to be lined up at a square after the ghetto\u2019s designated burial areas were full.<\/p>\n

According to historians, by the end of 1945 the deaths of some 14,000 people could be attributed to the conditions in the Budapest ghetto \u2014 either those who died there or those who became sick there and passed away in the months following its liberation on Jan. 18, 1945.<\/p>\n

Around 420,000 of the Hungarian Jews killed during the Holocaust were residents of countryside cities and villages. They were deported from their homes by rail to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps in less than two months in mid-1944.<\/p>\n

<\/figure>\n

Tamas Mester, president of the Budapest Jewish Community, spoke of growing responsibilities to remember the suffering.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs time passes, our duty strengthens to guard the memory of the victims and oppose the growing pressure of forgetting,\u201d Mester said. \u201cAt the same time, it is an important task to help and care for the survivors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yakov Hadas-Handelsman, Israel\u2019s ambassador to Hungary, mentioned Hungarian Jews who chose to stay in Hungary instead of immigrating to Israel or elsewhere after the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

\u2033(They) had to face, for decades, the constant hardship of communism following the war. But against all odds, they managed to plant the seeds of Jewish identity for the next generations, who by now make Jewish life in Hungary and elsewhere flourishing once again,\u201d Hadas-Handelsman said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis does not mean that the dangers and the threats that Jews were facing before completely disappeared. As the Hungarian proverb says, \u2018Evil never sleeps,\u2019\u201d the ambassador added. \u201cToday, 75 years after the Holocaust, worldwide anti-Semitism is unfortunately on the rise again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vince Szalay-Bobrovniczky, deputy state secretary for civil society relations, said despite the Holocaust, Budapest now has a \u201cconsiderable community\u201d of Jews.<\/p>\n

\u201cFacing up to its past, Hungary is united in the interests of preventing any people belonging to a national, ethnic, racial or religious minority from suffering grievances,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

(Breitbart<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":1053820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nHungary's Jewish Community Commemorates 1945 Liberation of Budapest Ghetto – Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/hungarys-jewish-community-commemorates-1945-liberation-of-budapest-ghetto\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hungary's Jewish Community Commemorates 1945 Liberation of Budapest Ghetto – Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) \u2014 Hungary\u2019s Jewish community on Sunday commemorated the 75th anniversary of the liberation by Soviet troops of the Budapest ghetto, where over 70,000 Jews were confined near the end of World War II. While some 550,000 Hungarian Jews were killed during the Holocaust in Nazi-run death camps, in forced labor battalions or by the Nazis\u2019 Hungarian allies, many Budapest Jews survived the war. Many were forced into the ghetto, others hid around the city under assumed identities or were helped by sympathetic foreign diplomats like Sweden\u2019s Raoul Wallenberg. Hundreds of people attended the commemoration at Budapest\u2019s Dohany Street Synagogue, the largest in Europe, including Holocaust survivors, diplomats and politicians. Robert Frolich, the synagogue\u2019s chief rabbi, spoke of \u201cambivalent feelings\u201d surrounding the commemoration, which contains pain and mourning, but also the \u201ccelebration of life.\u201d \u201cSeventy-five years ago, Europe\u2019s last ghetto, the Budapest ghetto, was liberated. This is what we remember today,\u201d Frolich said. \u201cAmbivalent feelings gather inside us, because the reason for the event, the liberation of the ghetto, is itself ambivalent.\u201d \u201cIt contains pain, it contains tragedy and the mourning which cannot be put into words, which is unspeakable and can only be experienced. At the same time, it contains joy, relief and the celebration of life.\u201d Jews were forced to move into the ghetto, set up over more than 20 city blocks in Budapest\u2019s traditional Jewish quarter, from the end of November 1944. Enclosed with wooden planks and brick walls, conditions in the ghetto during the cold winter were inhumane. Residents faced mass starvation and disease. Thousands of dead bodies had to be lined up at a square after the ghetto\u2019s designated burial areas were full. 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Tamas Mester, president of the Budapest Jewish Community, spoke of growing responsibilities to remember the suffering. \u201cAs time passes, our duty strengthens to guard the memory of the victims and oppose the growing pressure of forgetting,\u201d Mester said. \u201cAt the same time, it is an important task to help and care for the survivors.\u201d Yakov Hadas-Handelsman, Israel\u2019s ambassador to Hungary, mentioned Hungarian Jews who chose to stay in Hungary instead of immigrating to Israel or elsewhere after the Holocaust. \u2033(They) had to face, for decades, the constant hardship of communism following the war. But against all odds, they managed to plant the seeds of Jewish identity for the next generations, who by now make Jewish life in Hungary and elsewhere flourishing once again,\u201d Hadas-Handelsman said. \u201cThis does not mean that the dangers and the threats that Jews were facing before completely disappeared. 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As the Hungarian proverb says, \u2018Evil never sleeps,\u2019\u201d the ambassador added. \u201cToday, 75 years after the Holocaust, worldwide anti-Semitism is unfortunately on the rise again.\u201d Vince Szalay-Bobrovniczky, deputy state secretary for civil society relations, said despite the Holocaust, Budapest now has a \u201cconsiderable community\u201d of Jews. \u201cFacing up to its past, Hungary is united in the interests of preventing any people belonging to a national, ethnic, racial or religious minority from suffering grievances,\u201d he said. 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