Canadians thankful for group clearing Hungarian cemetery
Ron Csillag writes about the recent massive restoration of the Kozma Street Jewish Cemetery, the world’s largest Jewish burial ground, located in the Hungarian capital.
How it Happened examines the Holocaust in Hungary
Peter Farkas reviews Erno Munkácsi’s How it Happened: Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry.
No bones found in Danube floor sweep for Holocaust victims’ remains
A sonar scan of the bottom of the Danube River in Budapest revealed no human remains, a local rabbi who initiated the search for the bodies of Holocaust victims said.
Israeli divers to search Danube River for remains of Holocaust victims
Divers from Israel’s ZAKA Search and Rescue will begin to search the Danube River in Hungary for the remains of Jewish Holocaust victims.
One man’s quest to restore the graveyards of Hungary
Miksa Winkler has helped restore around a dozen Jewish cemeteries in rural Hungary that were forgotten, neglected or abandoned, and he has plans for hundreds more.
Hungarian film feels both weighty and brisk
The postwar drama, which won several prizes last year, is screening in Toronto and across Canada.
Toronto Jewish Film Festival’s opener feels both weighty and brisk
The postwar drama 1945, about two Jewish men who suddenly arrive near a small Hungarian town by train after the war, has a slow-burning tension.
Jewish Hungarians to bury human remains from the Holocaust
The remains, discovered five years ago during construction work on Margaret Bridge on the Danube, belong to several people who were murdered in the Holocaust
