‘Through the gaps in the door, I saw Arrow Cross members leading people to the Danube bank to be shot to death. I also witnessed that those who could no longer walk were shot dead then and there, on the street.’
The Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Soviet Red Army on this day in 1945.
Perhaps few in Hungary know why a Hungarian Jew who helped Jews in Budapest during the Holocaust and was later executed by the British is so revered in Israel today.
‘A destructive press campaign was launched against me and I was just charged with vile fascist crimes, I, who not only suffered from the persecution of the fascists, but whose relatives were all killed by Fascism.’
In this article, we analyse various testimonies and depositions made during István Zadravecz’s many trials along with his speeches and articles appeared in the daily press at the time.
‘According to an April 2023 report by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, at least 52,250 persecuted Christians have been killed in the past 14 years, simply for the crime of being Christian. In the past five years, violence has spread southwards to the middle belt of Nigeria. In addition, approximately 18,000 churches and 2,500 Christian schools have been attacked…’
The Gaza war and Israel’s harsh tactics have damaged the Jewish state’s international reputation. Despite Israel’s right to self-defence, antisemitism has intensified globally. Recognizing this new threat, Israel is seeking new allies—and has already found one in Hungary.
7 October 2023 will go down in Jewish history as the second Holocaust—or at least, this is how many Israelis feel. The day has irreversibly changed their lives, and Israeli society is gradually processing the catastrophe. Read our on-site report on the security situation in the Jewish state—and how it is perceived.
‘Overall, it is clear that Kraus was a religious Israeli Hungarian publicist who rightly earned the communist dictatorship’s ire. To hinder his activities, a covert procedure was launched, and his conversations and correspondence were monitored both directly and indirectly; in other words, he was treated as an enemy of the regime for decades.’
‘It is hard to imagine a better example of “Stockholm syndrome” than this sorry episode, when local Catholics and even the Vatican seemed more intent on supporting la Résistance than protesting the occupation of the birthplace of Jesus Christ by Muslim militants. Perhaps some occupations are more just than others.’
Hungarian Conservative is a quarterly magazine on contemporary political, philosophical and cultural issues from a conservative perspective.
