Jews in Hungary and around the world are observing Holocaust Remembrance Day 80 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
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“I must not forget,” he said of the fate of the some 565,000 Hungarian Jews that perished in the Holocaust, the mass murder of Jews and other groups before and during World War II. “In my subconscious, I can never get over the possibility that a six-pointed star could be placed on my gate again at any moment. It is always in my mind.”during the Holocaust
“We carry in our genes what our grandparents’ or our parents’ generation went through,” he told The Associated Press. “I think that in order for us to happily observe Jewish holidays or to have Jewishness in our homes, what they experienced must remain a fresh memory, and that memory has to be part of our lives.”
But, fearing Horthy would defect to join the Allies, Hitler ordered the invasion of Hungary in March 1944, and the mass deportations began.
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