The Holocaust saw the dispossession, deportation, and systematic murder of more than half of the Hungarian Jews, primarily after the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944. Before that, several incidents took place, including The Raid in 1942, the murders of the majority of Jews in Novi Sad and south-eastern Bačka. [1]

Jan 24, 2025 · The timing of the Holocaust in Hungary set the stage for a devastating increase in mass murder. The Nazis and their Hungarian collaborators murdered approximately 550,000 Jews living in Hungary during the Holocaust. The vast majority of these victims—about 500,000—were killed in the last year of the war.

4 days ago · The survivors filed the lawsuit with the goal of pursuing a class action case against Hungary and its railway on behalf of all Hungarian Holocaust survivors and family members of Holocaust victims. The railroad played a key role in the genocide, transporting more than 400,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz over two months in 1944. ___

4 days ago · The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously ruled against a group of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, saying they could not sue Hungary in the United States to recover the proceeds of property ...

Jan 29, 2025 · Jews in Hungary and around the world are observing Holocaust Remembrance Day 80 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

When Hungary joined the war against the Allies, nearly 20,000 Jews from Kamenetz-Podolsk who held Polish or Soviet citizenship were turned over to the Germans and murdered. However, the extermination phase in Hungary only began later, after the Nazi invasion in March 1944.

Up to 568,000 Hungarian Jews had perished during the Holocaust. The Kasztner Controversy Dr. Israel (also known as Rudolf or Rezso) Kasztner was a Hungarian Zionist leader in his native Transylvania and then in Budapest after Transylvania was annexed by Hungary in 1940.

During April, the Jews of Hungary were forced into ghettos, where they were soon deported to extermination camps in the east. Hungary was liberated by the Soviet army during April 1945. By this time, approximately 568,000 Hungarian Jews had perished during the Holocaust.

As of mid-2019, there were approximately 4,500 Holocaust survivors in Hungary. On the basis of a 1993 law, the Hungarian government compensates persons who were unlawfully deprived of life and liberty.

The present debate on the causes of, and possible historical explanations for, the Hungarian Holocaust is reminiscent of the polemic that arose between two groups of historians of Nazism—the so-called intentionalists and functionalists—more than thirty years ago.