Hungary

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  11/30/2020
  

  US Embassy in Hungary slams article likening Soros to Hitler

  A Hungarian culture minister suggested that the Hungarian-American Jewish financier's advocacy of stronger democratic standards in the EU--which reflect criticism of right-wing governments in Poland and Hungary--are similar to the crimes committed against the two nations by Nazi Germany, among other attacks.

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• 9/6/2020
  

  A Coup of "Clerqs"?: Anne Applebaum's "Twilight of Democracy" Reviewed

  by David O'Connor

  Anne Applebaum's new book looks with concern at the rise of right-wing populism in Europe and the loyal party functionaries who enable its march. 

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• SOURCE: Times of Israel
  

  US Holocaust Survivor Who Spent Decades Fighting For Family’s Looted Art Dies

  Family of biochemist and tabletop designer Martha Nierenberg, 96, says they’ll continue legal battle for art collection, stolen by the Nazis and still held by Hungary.

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• 7/3/2020
  

  New Novel "The Collaborator" Explores the Moral Ambiguities of a Holocaust Rescuer

  by Diane Armstrong

  Do we have the right to judge the actions of people in life and death situations? Are we honour-bound to keep promises, no matter to whom they were made, and in what situations? Can a man be a hero and a collaborator?

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• 6/14/2020
  

  Hungarian-American Relations in 1849 and Today: Why We Need Another Lajos Kossuth

  by Tim Roberts

  A Hungarian nationalist visited the United States in 1849 to plead the case for an independent, democratic state, inspiring the cause of abolition in America. Today Hungarian-American relations are running in the direction of authoritarianism. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/31/2020
  

  Coronavirus Kills Its First Democracy

  You could say that Hungary was already “immunocompromised.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/26/19
  

  Hungary’s Orban hopes a rabbi can save his country’s controversial new Holocaust museum

  Initially, a Hungarian official spoke of a museum that would highlight the "story of love between Hungarian Jews and non-Jews. A love that has survived everything. As a result of which there is still a large Hungarian Jewish community living in this country." The premise was decried as Holocaust revisionism by historians and museum professionals worldwide.

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• 3/17/19
  

  Why the U.S. Bombed Auschwitz, But Didn't Save the Jews

  by Rafael Medoff

  Seventy-five years ago this week—on March 19, 1944—German troops marched into Hungary. The country’s 800,000 Jews, the last major Jewish community to have eluded the raging Holocaust, now lay within Hitler’s grasp.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  2/11/19
  

  Holocaust row taints Hungary's House of Fates museum project

  Arguments over the whole concept of the museum, and the content of the exhibitions and educational centre which will operate there, have long delayed the opening.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-28-2018
  

  Hungarians Fume as Statue of Former Leader Is Downgraded

  Imre Nagy, the communist prime minister executed for rebelling against the Soviet Union, is a hero to many in Hungary — but not to its far-right government.

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• SOURCE: hagalil.com
  11-5-2018
  

  Hungary: Zero Tolerance for Anti-Semitism?

  by Karl Pfeifer

  Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s claims to the contrary Jews are living in fear in Hungary – and with good reason.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-27-18
  

  Randolph L. Braham, leading historian of the Holocaust in Hungary, dies at 95

  Dr. Braham described Holocaust scholarship as his “destiny” and fought against moves to whitewash Hungarian collusion with Nazi authorities.

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• 11/18/18
  

  Is Thanksgiving Thanksgiving If We Are No Longer Welcoming Refugees?

  by William Lambers

  What we’ve lost by being mean.

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• 3-26-17
  

  What’s Going on in Hungary Is Alarming

  by Karl Pfeifer

  Once again the country has been taken over by a xenophobic, anti-Semitic party that sees conspiracies everywhere.

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• 10-20-16
  

  The Inspirational Leader Hungary Found When the People Revolted Against the Soviet Union in 1956

  by Jefferson Flanders

  His name was Imre Nagy. He was a hero.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-14-16
  

  Townspeople and Treasure Hunters in Hungary Search for a Sultan’s Buried Heart

  The site is believed to be where Suleiman the Magnificent spent his last night before 50,000 of his Ottoman soldiers sacked a nearby fortress defended by 2,500 Christians led by Miklos Zrinyi, a local Croatian-Hungarian nobleman.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-17-16
  

  The Nazis and Hungary took everything from my mother’s family. What good would reparations do?

  by Margaret McMullan

  That’s the thinking of Margaret McMullan, author of "Where the Angels Lived: One Family’s Story of Exile, Loss, and Return."

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• SOURCE: New Europe
  12-14-15
  

  Diplomats protest the glorification of Hungary’s anti-Semitic historian Balint Homan

  The statute commemorating the Nazi collaborator is erected by a “private group” linked to the far-right Jobbik party, but has received state and municipality funding, and has the moral support of the local Mayor, Andras Cser-Palkovics.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10-5-15
  

  Why Hungary’s PM should read up on his history before shunning Syrian refugees

  by Ursula Rothe

  For a start, Syria has a much longer Christian history than Hungary And. 2,000 years ago Hungary was home to a very large and prosperous Syrian community.

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• SOURCE: Jewish News Service
  3-19-14
  

  70 Years After Hungarian Holocaust, Historian Protests Planned Memorial

  Dr. Randolph L. Braham, a prominent Holocaust historian and a survivor from Hungary, chose to return an award he got in 2011.