ABOUT HUNGARY BLOG : ARTICLE ON HUNGARY HOLOCAUST DAY
Excerpt: The day falls of April 16th because on that day in 1944 the Hungarian Holocaust began with the process of sending Hungarian Jews to ghettos. The Day of Remembrance was established in 2001 by the First Orban Government - along with the Hungarian Holocaust Museum - and has been observed every year since.
The 1941 census showed a Hungarian Jewish population of 725,000. Two-thirds of them died as a result of forced labor, deportations, and genocide. The Jewish communities in the countryside were completely destroyed; only about 100,000 of those living in Budapest survived. Historians estimate that between 5,000 and 70,000 Hungarian Roma also lost their lives in concentration camps as victims of the Holocaust.
