“Our commitment must be to remember the victims who perished, respect the survivors still with us, and reaffirm humanity's common aspiration for mutual understanding and justice.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
13th March of the Living in Budapest
14.04.2015
13 April 2015- Every year on the occasion of the Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Day thousands commemorate the victims of the Holocaust at the March of the Living in Hungary.
Photo: Chair of IHRA Szabolcs Takács marched together with Ambassador of the U.S. Ms. Colleen Bell, Ambassador of Germany Ms. Lieselore Cyrus, Ambassador of Canada Ms. Lisa Helfand, Ambassador of France Mr. Roland Galharague and Deputy Head of Mission of Israel Mr. Hagai Mei-Zahav.
Over 10,000 people took part in the march, including IHRA Chair Szabolcs Takács.
In 2015 the keynote speaker of the event was the President of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald S. Lauder. “The March of the Living reminds us what happens when the world is silent,” said Lauder. The full speech can be read here.
About 560,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, most of them in 1944. Today Hungary's Jewish community numbers around 10,000.
The ‘March of the Living’ in Hungary is organized every year by the March of the Living Foundation, with the support of the MAZSIHISZ, the Federation of Jewish Communities in
Hungary.
Photo: Commemoration in Budapest.The keynote speaker of the event was the President of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald S. Lauder.