“The monument that you referred to, which we are erecting on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Hungary’s German occupation, and the loss of state sovereignty, is not a Holocaust memorial.

Moving Holocaust monuments and memorial sites already exist in Hungary,” the letter said.

“The inscription speaks clearly: ‘The German occupation of Hungary, March 19, 1944, in memory of the victims’,” it said.

The house representatives and senators posted an open letter on the website of the Jewish World Congress at the end of May, asking Orbán to reconsider building the memorial.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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