In May 1944 the deportation of Hungary's Jews to Auschwitz began. In just eight weeks, some 424,000 Jews were deported. By the end of the Holocaust, some 565,000 Hungarian Jews had been murdered.  The Fascist elements in Hungary enjoyed broad popular support and Miklos Horthy’s dictatorial government concluded an alliance with Nazi Germany. Antisemitic legislation was passed and more than 100,000 Jewish men were mobilized for forced labor, in which approximately 40,000 perished.

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"My grandparents in order to survive the war hid in cellars. I don’t know how they survived they were just lucky. How they got food kept warm.  I was shocked to discover that many in my grandfathers family were sent to Auschwitz and never survived. and stories about survival" Caroline Poole

Budapest, Hungary, A homeless Jewish man in the ghetto