Hungarian Yidden on Thursday marked the 62nd anniversary of the liberation of the Budapest ghetto with a service in Europe’s largest Shul (Dohany Street Synagogue), which sits at the edge of the area that served as the ghetto during the Second World War.
Soviet troops liberated the ghetto on January 18, 1945, releasing around 70,000 Yidden from their captivity in appalling conditions in the middle of downtown Budapest.
Approximately 30,000-40,000 Jews survived outside of the ghetto, kept safe with the help of foreign diplomats and ordinary citizens.
Around half of the 200,000 Jews living in Budapest prior to the outbreak of war perished during the conflict, many of the sent to concentration camps or lined up on the banks of the Danube and shot.
Over 400,000 Jews were sent to death camps from Hungary in 1944, mainly from other towns and villages.
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I believe that the number of Hungarian Jews sent to the camps in 1944 is over 700,000. I don’t have the ability to research it here, but the nbumber should be conssiderably more. There were close to 1,000,000, and only 200,000 – 250,000 were able to escape deportation for a variety of reasons. I’m sure the historians on this blog will know a more accurate number.
I was at a Chassidish wedding in Budapest a few years ago and the Chupah was right by the Danube. It was chilling to watch a frum ceremony 60 years after Jews have been shot IN THAT EXACT SPOT which is known as the ‘RED RIVER’
Is this a shul or a neologue temple?
Anon.
No, I’ve been to the Dohany shul. Its an orthodox shul!
sorry, sorry! I might be confusing Dohany with another shul! not sure.
Its not a shul, its a reform/conservative temple. Neolog is today officialy part of the Masorti Olami conservative movement but represents more the reform.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dohany_Street_Synagogue
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolog
Baruch Hashem today we could practice religon freely!! But unfortunately alot of people couldn’t and they were nebach niftar!! Hashem Yerachem!!