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  • New Holocaust museum stokes controversy among Hungary's Jews

    02/09/2019 2:53:25 PM PST · by CondoleezzaProtege · 22 replies
    EWN South Africa ^ | 26 Jan 2019 | AFP
    Hungarian Jews find themselves divided in a bitter dispute over the long-delayed opening of a new Holocaust museum in Budapest. Some 600,000 Hungarian Jews perished during the Holocaust, most of them deported in the space of a few months in 1944 with the assistance of the Hungarian authorities. "Schmidt’s previous concept for the House of Fates covered just the years between 1938 and 1948, omitting rising anti-Semitism and the introduction of the first anti-Jewish law in post-World War I Europe under Hungary’s interwar leader Miklos Horthy. An official memorial erected in 2014 that portrayed Hungary as an innocent victim of...