12 result(s) for murdered in Community & Culture
Memories of Roma Murders by Hungarian Neo-Nazis in 2008-09 Evoked by Budapest Mayor to Protect Rights of All
- 24 Feb 2025 7:17 AM
- community & culture
"When we protect the rights of any minority we also protect our own freedom," Gergely Karácsony, the mayor of Budapest, told a commemoration paying tribute to the Roma victims of a series of murders back in 2008-2009.
Roma Holocaust Memorial Day Marked In Budapest
- 3 Aug 2020 8:28 AM
- hungarymatters.hu
- community & culture
Roma Holocaust Memorial Day was marked in Budapest on Sunday, 76 years to the day after more than 3,000 Roma and Sinti were killed by the Nazis in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Video: Hungary's Jewish Community Celebrates New Synagogues
- 3 Oct 2019 8:29 AM
- community & culture
Seventy-five years ago in Hungary, nearly 6,000 Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.
Saint Thomas Becket Relics Presented At Canterbury Cathedral
- 30 May 2016 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The relics of Saint Thomas Becket (1118- 1170) held in the northern Hungarian town of Esztergom were presented in Canterbury Cathedral on Saturday, the site where he was murdered eight hundred years ago.
Xpat Opinion: Statue Strife Nr 2: György Donáth
- 1 Mar 2016 8:00 AM
- community & culture
Commenting on a foiled initiative to unveil the bust of a pre-war right-wing politician, left-wing commentators accuse the government of indulging in a cult of racist personalities. Their pro-government counterpart denies the allegation that György Donáth was an anti-Semite, while an independent conservative author calls on the opposing sides to show more tolerance towards each other.
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 Youth Orgs To Light Candles For Christian Victims Of ISIS
- 29 Aug 2014 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Ruling Fidesz’s youth arm Fidelitas and the Young Christian Democrats (IKSZ) on Friday will light candles in Budapest for the Christians who have fallen victim to brutal attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). Members of the Jihadist organisation have murdered hundreds of people for their citizenship or religion, including US journalist James Foley, with heinous brutality, the ...
Hungary’s Roma Community Marks 70th Anniversary Of Roma Holocaust
- 4 Aug 2014 7:00 PM
- community & culture
Hungary’s 700,000 strong Roma community is holding memorial events throughout the country today on the occasion of international Roma Holocaust remembrance day.
Xpat Opinion: Rolling Into War, Rolling Into Art
- 19 Sep 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
In the late 1930s, Europe teetered on the verge of what would soon become The 1939-1945 War, or to Americans, the Second World War. Out in Hungary, one newspaper editor was frustrated. He wasted far too much time filling up fountain pens and cleaning up smudged pages. He was annoyed that the sharp tip of his fountain pen often tore the paper.
Memories of Roma Murders by Hungarian Neo-Nazis in 2008-09 Evoked by Budapest Mayor to Protect Rights of All
- 24 Feb 2025 7:17 AM
- community & culture
"When we protect the rights of any minority we also protect our own freedom," Gergely Karácsony, the mayor of Budapest, told a commemoration paying tribute to the Roma victims of a series of murders back in 2008-2009.
Roma Holocaust Memorial Day Marked In Budapest
- 3 Aug 2020 8:28 AM
- hungarymatters.hu
- community & culture
Roma Holocaust Memorial Day was marked in Budapest on Sunday, 76 years to the day after more than 3,000 Roma and Sinti were killed by the Nazis in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Video: Hungary's Jewish Community Celebrates New Synagogues
- 3 Oct 2019 8:29 AM
- community & culture
Seventy-five years ago in Hungary, nearly 6,000 Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.
Saint Thomas Becket Relics Presented At Canterbury Cathedral
- 30 May 2016 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The relics of Saint Thomas Becket (1118- 1170) held in the northern Hungarian town of Esztergom were presented in Canterbury Cathedral on Saturday, the site where he was murdered eight hundred years ago.
Xpat Opinion: Statue Strife Nr 2: György Donáth
- 1 Mar 2016 8:00 AM
- community & culture
Commenting on a foiled initiative to unveil the bust of a pre-war right-wing politician, left-wing commentators accuse the government of indulging in a cult of racist personalities. Their pro-government counterpart denies the allegation that György Donáth was an anti-Semite, while an independent conservative author calls on the opposing sides to show more tolerance towards each other.
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 Youth Orgs To Light Candles For Christian Victims Of ISIS
- 29 Aug 2014 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Ruling Fidesz’s youth arm Fidelitas and the Young Christian Democrats (IKSZ) on Friday will light candles in Budapest for the Christians who have fallen victim to brutal attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). Members of the Jihadist organisation have murdered hundreds of people for their citizenship or religion, including US journalist James Foley, with heinous brutality, the ...
Hungary’s Roma Community Marks 70th Anniversary Of Roma Holocaust
- 4 Aug 2014 7:00 PM
- community & culture
Hungary’s 700,000 strong Roma community is holding memorial events throughout the country today on the occasion of international Roma Holocaust remembrance day.
Xpat Opinion: Rolling Into War, Rolling Into Art
- 19 Sep 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
In the late 1930s, Europe teetered on the verge of what would soon become The 1939-1945 War, or to Americans, the Second World War. Out in Hungary, one newspaper editor was frustrated. He wasted far too much time filling up fountain pens and cleaning up smudged pages. He was annoyed that the sharp tip of his fountain pen often tore the paper.