Chief rabbi of the Dohány Street Synagogue Róbert Frölich said that when they remember the millions of victims of the Holocaust, they also celebrate life regained.

Rabbi Tamás Verő said that after the Jewry of the countryside was deported, the Jews of the capital represented survival for the Jewish people, and “had they not been saved from death by the Red Army, we would not be here today.” Hungary’s government was represented at the commemoration by Minister of Justice László Trócsányi.

The government pays tribute to the memory of the victims and survivors, pledging that similar atrocities can never again take place in Hungary, the ministry said in a statement.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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