Celia Gurevitch Jewish Community Library

64 years ago today the extermination of Hungarian Jewry accelerated by forcing them in the newly erected ghettos all over the country. In the last few years this date was selected for the “March of the Living” as a commemoration/remembrance. Today, like in past years, thousands of people gathered in Budapest is front of the largest European synagogue and marched over to the banks of the Danube, where during the Holocaust Jews were shot into the river. As part of the same “March” initiative tens of thousands of people from all over the world will travel the next few weeks to Auschwitz. You may be more interested in the American website of the program than the (all) Hungarian one.

While remembering the dead I would like to recommend a book that brings Hungarian Jews closer by introducing hundreds of them one by one. David Gur‘s book is called: “Brothers for resistance and rescue: The underground Zionist youth movement in Hungary during World War II.” It has pictures and a paragraph or two on 420 men and women who were active in those movements. It is a testament to the wide range of people who participated, the diversity of the Zionist movement and to the tragic death for many of them.