Hungary

Today Hungary is home to approximately 80,000 Jewish people, most of whom are native Hungarian Jews.

Born in Hungary in 1932, Agnes survived the Debrecen ghetto and, after her transport to Auschwitz was diverted due to an administrative error, she worked as a child laborer in the agricultural and armament labor camps of Austria. She returned to Hungary a...

The Budapest House: A true story of a family caught up in the Hungarian Holocaust and the traumatic aftermath.

Batsheva Oberlander, shlucha in Hungary, talks about her refugee work, and is joined by a refugee from Ukraine, who is en-route to Israel.

Csanád Szegedi was a leading Hungarian neo-Nazi until it was discovered that he was a Jew. Should he get a second chance? Can we forgive someone who openly promoted hate against Jews? The film “Keep Quiet” explores this question; watch an excerpt from the...

The Holocaust came late to Hungary. But when the Nazis began their gruesome work, they were ruthlessly efficient, and two-thirds of the Jewish population perished at their hands. Leslie Meisels went through hell together with his parents and siblings, but...

As a child, Professor Ladislaus Löb watched as anti-Semitism slowly tightened its grip on the Hungarian nation, culminating in the Natzi occupation, beginning in 1944. He later wrote a book describing how Rezső Kasztner negotiated with Eichmann, saving Lö...