“The Hungarian state bears responsibility for not having defended its citizens during the Holocaust; there is no collective guilt, but there is state responsibility”, Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office Gergely Gulyas said at a commemoration to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, according to Kormany.hu.
At the event, which was organised by the Holocaust Memorial Center, the minister highlighted: “The government has always spoken very clearly with relation to the responsibility of the Hungarian state”. “It is a fact that in the thirties the rise of anti-Semitism also reached Hungarian society, and was embodied in the intolerable restriction of Jewish rights, and it is a fact that the deportation of Jews began following the German occupation, but none of this cold have occurred without the activities of Hungarian public administration”, he explained, according to Kormany.hu's article.
“The government is proud of the fact that Jews and non-Jews can live side-by-side today in a flourishing cultural and religious life, and in security”, Gulyas declared. “Hungary has learned from the past and knows that a common future must be planned and realised together with the Jewry”, he added.
