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Hungary honours Scottish Missionary
07.11.2017

A special exhibition in honour of Scottish missionary Jane Haining was opened in the Holocaust Memorial Centre in Budapest. Miss Haining, who grew up near Dumfries, served as Matron at the Scottish Mission school in Budapest during the 1930s and 1940s. Against advice from Church of Scotland officials, Miss Haining remained in Budapest during the Holocaust. Arrested in 1944 and charged with working with Jews, Miss Haining was taken to the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in occupied Poland where she died aged 47.

Global Minority Rights Summer School
14.03.2017

Applications are now open for the Global Minority Rights Summer School 2017: Interrogating Populism from the Perspectives of Vulnerable Minorities.

Szabolcs Takács visits Jewish community of India
17.05.2016

From 7-8 April, former IHRA Chair Szabolcs Takács and President of the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz) András Heisler visited the Jewish community of India.

Minority Rights Summer School
18.03.2016

The fourth international summer school on minority rights will take place from 10-16 July in Budapest.

European Summer School
08.03.2016

The Tom Lantos Institute and the ELTE Faculty of Education and Psychology are organising the third European Summer School on “Prejudice, Genocide, Remembrance” from 26 June to 2 July 2016 in Budapest.

Political Capital Institute
01.12.2015

IHRA grant recipient, Political Capital Institute, has produced a video on antisemitism in Hungary.

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.

IHRA Plenary Meetings to be held in Budapest and Debrecen
13.04.2015

Hungarian IHRA Chair Szabolcs Takács announced in Debrecen (Hungary) that the IHRA would hold its plenary meetings in Budapest and Debrecen.

EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL ON “PREJUDICE, GENOCIDE, REMEMBRANCE” Budapest, 5 – 10 July 2015
25.03.2015

The second European Summer School, “Prejudice, Genocide, Remembrance," will take place in Budapest organized by the Tom Lantos Institute with the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Education and Psychology (Budapest), and CEJI – a Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe (Brussels).

Hungary Statement on Vandalism to Gyöngyös Jewish Cemetery
24.03.2015

The Prime Minister's Office of Hungary has issued a statement condemning the "babaric deeds" of those who desecrated the Jewish cemetery in Gyöngyös, Hungary.

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