1950s Hungary

By gavper01

  • Hungarian authorities ordered Jws to concentrate incertain cities

    Hungarian authorities ordered Hungarian Jews living outside Budapest (roughly 500,000) to concentrate in certain cities, usually regional government seats.
    There urban areas in which the Jews were forced to concentrate were enclosed and referred to as ghettos.

  • Deportation of Hungarian Jews

    The Hungarian authorities, in coordination with the German Security Police, began to systematically deport the Hungarian Jews. The Hungarian Police carried out the roundups and force the Jews onto the deportation trains. Most were deported to Auschwitz. Thousands were also sent to the border with Austria to be used for digging fortification trenches.

  • German forces occupied Hungary

    German forces occupied Hungary on March 19, 1944

  • https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005458