The Holocaust in Hungary
extermination of Hungarian Jewry at the end of WWII, between May and July 1944
The Holocaust saw the dispossession, deportation and systematic murder of more than half of the Hungarian Jews, primarily after the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944. Before that, several incidents took place, including The Raid in 1942, the murders of the majority of Jews in Novi Sad and south-eastern Bačka.
At the time of the German invasion, Hungary had a Jewish population of 825,000, the largest remaining in Europe, further swollen by Jews escaping from elsewhere to the relative safety of that country. The Hungarian Prime Minister Miklós Kállay had been reluctant to deport them. Fearing Hungary was trying to pursue peace with the Allies (which the diplomat László Veress secretly did in the September of 1943), Adolf Hitler ordered the invasion. New restrictions against Jews were imposed soon after Germany occupied Hungary on 19 March 1944. The invading troops included a Sonderkommando which was led by SS officer Adolf Eichmann, who arrived in Budapest in order to supervise the deportation of the country's Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland. Between 15 May and 9 July 1944, over 434,000 Jews were deported on 147 trains, most of them to Auschwitz, where about 80 percent were gassed on arrival. The quick progress of the deportations was enabled by close cooperation between the Hungarian and German authorities.
Diplomatic pressure and the Allied bombing of Budapest persuaded Miklós Horthy, the Regent of Hungary, to order a halt to the deportations on 6 July.
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