“At the time of the Nazi invasion of Hungary, March 1944, there were approximately 800,000 Jews living there. In May 1944 the deportations to Auschwitz began. In just eight weeks, some 437,000 Jews were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. After October 1944, when the Arrow Cross party came to power, thousands of Jews from Budapest were murdered on the banks of the Danube and tens of thousands were marched hundreds of miles towards the Austrian border. In all, some 565,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered.” Below are first-hand accounts of the aktions and deportations that took place in the spring and summer of 1944. All are from the Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs. Please read and Share this important piece of history:
Posted on: Tue, 20 May 2014 19:40:25 +0000
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