The Holocaust
in
Hungary
“It was 19 March [1944]. I opened a window that overlooked the Danube and I don’t know how I knew, but I suddenly felt that the Germans were marching into Budapest. And there they were marching along the lower embankment. I knew our troubles were beginning.” – Györgyike Haskó
The destruction of
Hungarian Jewry
A short history
From Hungary’s Golden Age to
the Holocaust
Five Hungarian Jews
and the deportations
Excerpts from Centropa’s interviews
Personal stories and eyewitness accounts
from 1944
The wedding of Erzi and Alfred Spatz, 1935
A family wedding: then the Holocaust
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the fate of the 23 people in this picture
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Two films
on Jews from Hungary
From Centropa’s film library
A short introduction to Hungarian Jewry, in
Hungarian with English subtitles
The Mayor Who worked in Hell:
a Centropa film
Miksa Domonkos was a hero of the
First World War, acted as de facto
Mayor of the Budapest Ghetto in the
Second World War and was arrested by
the Communists afterwards.