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.

There, the Germans took them to various concentration camps, especially Dachau in southern Germany and Mauthausen in northern Austria, and to Vienna, where they were employed in the construction of fortifications around the city.

Jan 24, 2025 · Tens of thousands more died while imprisoned in Auschwitz or other German concentration camps and forced labor camps, as well as on death marches. Thousands were murdered in Budapest by Hungarian Arrow Cross militiamen.

By the end of July 1944, the only Jewish community left in Hungary was that of Budapest, the capital. Jews from Subcarpathian Rus get off the deportation train and assemble on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

In just eight weeks, some 424,000 Jews were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. After October 1944, when the Arrow Cross party came to power, thousands of Jews from Budapest were murdered on the banks of the Danube and tens of thousands were marched hundreds of miles towards the Austrian border.

3 days ago · Their journey of horror did not end there. Agnes and her mother were taken to the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, where they were tattooed with numbers: “Mine was A18251.

3 days ago · BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, in which nearly half a million Hungarian Jews lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis, Tamás Léderer still can’t shake the sense that the world hasn’t learned from the horrors of the 20th century.. Born in Budapest in 1938, Léderer, unlike most of Hungary’s Jewish population ...

On November 8, 1944, the Hungarians concentrated more than 70,000 Jews – men, women, and children in the Ujlaki brickyards in Obuda. From there they were taken on a forced march to camps in Austria. Thousands were shot and thousands more died as a result of starvation or exposure to the bitter cold.

Thus during a period of four months over half a million Jews were deported to Auschwitz, most of whom were murdered in the gas chambers immediately after their arrival. The ‘deposit camps’ were gradually emptied (through selections) up to October 1944.

3 days ago · Jews in Hungary and around the world are observing Holocaust Remembrance Day 80 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp January 29, 2025 at 6:16 a.m. EST Yesterday at 6:16 ...