329 result(s) for holocaust
US Special Envoy For Holocaust Visits Budapest
- 4 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Nicholas Dean, the US State Department’s Special Envoy for Holocaust issues, has paid a visit to Budapest recently, daily Magyar Nemzet said, citing information by the US embassy. During his visit, the special envoy held talks with representatives of the government and civil society, the embassy said.
FBI Director Regrets Holocaust Remarks Were “Distracting”
- 24 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
FBI director James Comey declined to apologise for recent remarks regarding the involvement of Germany, Poland and Hungary in the Holocaust but said he regretted mentioning specific countries, which was “distracting” for readers, the US news website wate.com reported. During a visit to the local FBI headquarters of Knoxville on Tuesday, Comey was asked if he had an apology for his remarks ...
Hungary Hosts International Holocaust Event In London
- 24 Apr 2015 1:00 AM
- community & culture
Hungary, as the current president of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), hosted a large-scale international event remembering the Holocaust, in London. Szabolcs Takács, Hungary’s state secretary for EU affairs, said London was a symbolic venue for such an event as Britain had a very strong Jewish community from whom there was a lot to learn.
Xpat Opinion: Hungary Protests Against Holocaust Comments By FBI Director
- 23 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Népszabadság takes up the defence of FBI director James Corney who said that Nazis and their accomplices in many countries, including Hungary, thought they were doing the right thing. The left-wing daily says leading Hungarian government politicians have amply confessed Hungary’s war time sins.
Hungarian Auschwitz Survivor To Testify In Nazi Camp Officer’s Trial
- 22 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungarian Holocaust survivor Éva Pusztai-Fahidi will testify as a witness and plaintiff in a trial of a former Nazi SS officer accused of being an accessory to the murder of more than 300,000 people at the Auschwitz death camp.
PM's Office: "We Must Be Better Hungarians"
- 19 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
In a speech given on the Memorial Day for Hungarian Victims of the Holocaust, János Lázár said that “the nation is more than just a community of interests: the nation is a community of fates”. (You can turn the English subtitle on by clicking on the "captions" icon at the right bottom of the video.)
Holocaust Memorial Day In Hungary
- 16 Apr 2015 3:00 AM
- community & culture
Hungary cannot stand “mute and helpless” over the spreading of “evil ideas”, János Lázár, the head of the prime minister’s office, said, addressing a commemoration marking Hungary’s Holocaust Memorial Day. After what happened at the Danube embankment in the winter of 1944—when Jews were shot into the river—and in Auschwitz “there can be no such thing as innocent anti-Semitism, anti-Gypsy ...
Hungarian Minsiter: One Cannot Build A Country On Hate
- 14 Apr 2015 1:00 AM
- community & culture
On Sunday at a Holocaust commemoration in front of the House of Terror Museum in Budapest, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog said that hate cannot be the foundation for building a country – either in Budapest, Tapolca, the northern Borsod region of Hungary, or anywhere.
Ministry Condemns Vandalism At Budapest Holocaust Photo Exhibition
- 7 Apr 2015 5:00 AM
- community & culture
The human resources ministry has strongly condemned the damaging of images displayed at an openair Holocaust exhibition in central Budapest, calling the vandalism “shocking and appalling”. “The perpetrators desecrated not only Holocaust survivors, but the entire Jewish community, the whole of the Hungarian nation, all decent Hungarians by their mindless, vandal act,” the ministry said.
US Special Envoy For Holocaust Visits Budapest
- 4 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Nicholas Dean, the US State Department’s Special Envoy for Holocaust issues, has paid a visit to Budapest recently, daily Magyar Nemzet said, citing information by the US embassy. During his visit, the special envoy held talks with representatives of the government and civil society, the embassy said.
FBI Director Regrets Holocaust Remarks Were “Distracting”
- 24 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
FBI director James Comey declined to apologise for recent remarks regarding the involvement of Germany, Poland and Hungary in the Holocaust but said he regretted mentioning specific countries, which was “distracting” for readers, the US news website wate.com reported. During a visit to the local FBI headquarters of Knoxville on Tuesday, Comey was asked if he had an apology for his remarks ...
Hungary Hosts International Holocaust Event In London
- 24 Apr 2015 1:00 AM
- community & culture
Hungary, as the current president of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), hosted a large-scale international event remembering the Holocaust, in London. Szabolcs Takács, Hungary’s state secretary for EU affairs, said London was a symbolic venue for such an event as Britain had a very strong Jewish community from whom there was a lot to learn.
Xpat Opinion: Hungary Protests Against Holocaust Comments By FBI Director
- 23 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Népszabadság takes up the defence of FBI director James Corney who said that Nazis and their accomplices in many countries, including Hungary, thought they were doing the right thing. The left-wing daily says leading Hungarian government politicians have amply confessed Hungary’s war time sins.
Hungarian Auschwitz Survivor To Testify In Nazi Camp Officer’s Trial
- 22 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungarian Holocaust survivor Éva Pusztai-Fahidi will testify as a witness and plaintiff in a trial of a former Nazi SS officer accused of being an accessory to the murder of more than 300,000 people at the Auschwitz death camp.
PM's Office: "We Must Be Better Hungarians"
- 19 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
In a speech given on the Memorial Day for Hungarian Victims of the Holocaust, János Lázár said that “the nation is more than just a community of interests: the nation is a community of fates”. (You can turn the English subtitle on by clicking on the "captions" icon at the right bottom of the video.)
Holocaust Memorial Day In Hungary
- 16 Apr 2015 3:00 AM
- community & culture
Hungary cannot stand “mute and helpless” over the spreading of “evil ideas”, János Lázár, the head of the prime minister’s office, said, addressing a commemoration marking Hungary’s Holocaust Memorial Day. After what happened at the Danube embankment in the winter of 1944—when Jews were shot into the river—and in Auschwitz “there can be no such thing as innocent anti-Semitism, anti-Gypsy ...
Hungarian Minsiter: One Cannot Build A Country On Hate
- 14 Apr 2015 1:00 AM
- community & culture
On Sunday at a Holocaust commemoration in front of the House of Terror Museum in Budapest, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog said that hate cannot be the foundation for building a country – either in Budapest, Tapolca, the northern Borsod region of Hungary, or anywhere.
Ministry Condemns Vandalism At Budapest Holocaust Photo Exhibition
- 7 Apr 2015 5:00 AM
- community & culture
The human resources ministry has strongly condemned the damaging of images displayed at an openair Holocaust exhibition in central Budapest, calling the vandalism “shocking and appalling”. “The perpetrators desecrated not only Holocaust survivors, but the entire Jewish community, the whole of the Hungarian nation, all decent Hungarians by their mindless, vandal act,” the ministry said.