Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Year

June 20, 2014 12:22 PM

Minister Navracsics inaugurates Wallenberg memorial in central Budapest

Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg and other heroes that saved people embarked on bringing hope to Hungarians in a hopeless situation, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade stated on Tuesday at the inauguration of a Wallenberg memorial in Budapest

May 22, 2014 5:05 PM

Concert for the memory of the victims of the Holocaust

Marking the 70th anniversary of the deportation of Hungarian Jews, as part of the official program series within the frames of the Holocaust Memorial Year declared by the Government of Hungary, Leon Botstein will conduct at the Liszt Academy on the 11th of May, 7:00 PM.

April 29, 2014 8:37 AM

Speech of President János Áder at the March of the Living memorial event held at the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp

Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, 28 April 2014

April 28, 2014 9:06 AM

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust

The delegation of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) attended the March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau in Poland on April 28, 2014. The program, which was organized by the International March of the Living Foundation, was held for the twenty-seventh time in Poland. Participants – Christians and Jews, adults and youth, survivors and descendants – came from more than fifty countries to commemorate the Holocaust.

April 28, 2014 5:02 PM

Speech by Deputy Prime Minister Tibor Navracsics on Hungarian Holocaust Remembrance Day

House of Terror Museum, 27 April 2014

April 28, 2014 4:56 PM

The Holocaust was a tragedy of mankind, Hungarians and Jews as well

The Holocaust, an unheard example of industrially executed terror, was the tragedy of mankind, Hungarians and Jews as well”, said Deputy PM Tibor Navracsics, Minister of Public Administration and Justice in Budapest during the commemoration of the Holocaust organized at the House of Terror Museum last Sunday.

April 25, 2014 9:08 AM

Hungary aims to make the Holocaust Memorial Year a success

Deputy State Secretary Gergely Prőhle received Douglas Davidson, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues from the US Department of State, on April 24, 2014. Mr Prőhle informed his guest about the current Holocaust Memorial Year in Hungary.

April 17, 2014 8:56 AM

Remembering child victims and teachers saving children on the Memorial Day for the Hungarian Holocaust Victims

On the occasion of the Memorial Day for the Hungarian Victims of the Holocaust, a plaque was installed remembering child victims and teachers rescuing children in secondary schools of Makó and Pécs this Wednesday.

April 16, 2014 9:03 AM

Prime Minister sent letter to the Chairman of Mazsihisz

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sent a letter to the Chairman of the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz), András Heisler, on the occasion of the Memorial Day for the Hungarian Victims of the Holocaust. The full text of the letter can be read below.

April 16, 2014 4:53 PM

Commemoration on the Memorial Day for the Hungarian Victims of the Holocaust

Hungarian victims of the Holocaust were remembered by Minister of Public Administration and Justice Tibor Navracsics and Zoltán Pokorni, mayor of the 12th district of the capital in Budapest, at the Danube Memorial Shoes.

January 29, 2014 5:26 PM

Prime Minister sends letter to address Holocaust Commemoration

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust, the Government of Hungary is organising the Memorial Year, through the Hungarian Holocaust 2014 Memorial Committee. Within the framework of this series of events, a scientific memorial meeting organised to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day is taking place today and Prime Minister Orbán sent a letter to address the event.

February 11, 2014 4:46 PM

Speech of H. E. János Lázár, Minister of State heading the Prime Minister's Office of Hungary at UNESCO headquarter

H. E. János Lázár, Minister of State heading the Prime Minister's Office of Hungary delivered a speech at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 27th January, 2014 on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

January 29, 2014 5:03 PM

State Secretary Rétvári: Freedom rights must never be given up

Freedom rights and equality between people, and protection ensured by law must never be given up to any degree, the justice ministry's parliamentary state secretary told a commemoration marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Budapest on Monday.