More then 200 rabbis commemorated the 70th anniversary of the annihilation of 600,000 Hungarian Jews in the Holocaust Monday during a memorial in Budapest. Among those who attended, were Israel Chief Rabbis Yitzhak Yosef and David Lau, A Holocaust survivor Grand Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taub, the Kaliver rebbe and Deputy Minister for Religious Affairs Eli Ben Dahan.
The memorial is the site of a massacre by Hungarian fascists who lined Jews up along the river, made them remove their shoes and shot them, allowing their bodies to land in the Danube. The event was opened by Shlomo Koves, head of the Unified Hungarian Jewish Community, a Chabad organization.Present at the event were “representatives from the Hungarian government” including Hungarian Defense Minister Csaba Hende,
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taub, the Kaliver Rebbe (English & Hebrew)
Rabbi David Moshe Lieberman
Monday, March 24, 2014
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