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• 12 May 2025 2:04 PM

The 21st March of the Living event was held in Budapest on Sunday afternoon with participants marching from the Shoes on the Danube Bank monument, crossing Chain Bridge and then to the Varkert Bazaar area.

There, Andor Grosz, head of organiser Mazsihisz and the March of the Living Foundation board, said the terrorist attack of October 7, 2023 had shaken the belief that the horrors of what happened to Jews in the middle of the 20th century could not happen again.

Michel Gourary, director of the European March of the Living, told the event that over 8 weeks between May and July 1944, some 437,000 Jews were deported from Hungary to Auschwitz, making it one of the fastest and most brutal deportations during the entire Holocaust.

It could not have happened without the participation of Hungarian officials and the gendarmerie, he added. He said that since 2004, Hungarian state leaders, including current Prime Minister Viktor Orban, have acknowledged the responsibility of Hungarian public officials, police and the gendarmerie during the Holocaust.

The march led by electric vans carrying Holocaust survivors started to the sounds of the shofar blown by Chief Rabbi Tamas Vero. European Affairs Minister Janos Boka, Israeli Ambassador Maya Kadosh, US charge d’affaires Robert Palladino and Grosz also marched at the front of the procession.

Grosz said that in 2025 the March of the Living had become more timely than it was ever before.

"We march not only for the victims of the past, but also for those that are in danger even today, who are hostages still today and who are targets of hate, and also for those who live in places where they could have a reason to fear when they say that they are Jewish," he added.

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MTI - The Hungarian News Agency, founded in 1881.

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