Israeli Ambassador To Hungary: Ilan Mor: Holocaust Denial Form Of Antisemitism
- 15 May 2014 9:00 AM
Holocaust denial is a form of anti- Semitism, Ilan Mor, Israel’s ambassador to Hungary, said at a Holocaust memorial event in the south of Hungary. Six million victims of the Shoah were murdered twice, Mor said. Once when they were physically eliminated seventy years ago, and again, when they tried to destroy their memory, he told a two-day conference. He said that anti-Semitism could only be fought against with the help of education.
Mor, noting that the Hungarian government had declared 2014 a year of Holocaust remembrance, expressed hope that at the end of the year Hungarians and foreigners would be able to say, in retrospect, that the goal of marking the anniversary had been reached.
Namely, that the events which took place 70 years ago had been remembered and a long process would begin which would give the whole of Hungarian society the chance to confront the period of the Holocaust.
Randolph Braham, emeritus professor of City University of New York, said in a video message to the conference that 565,000 Jews had fallen victim to the Hungarian Holocaust in a particular way: while in Poland the Nazis and their allies had taken five years to murder Jews, in Hungary merely several months had been sufficient for the deportation of Jews living outside the capital.
Source www.hungarymatters.hu
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