The posterity cannot avoid facing the fact that most of the Hungarian Jews were killed after deportation: 40% of the Jews of Budapest and up to 80% of the Jews from the countryside perished, a total of about 600,000 people. Their property, piled up, hidden away, found and sold out, found new owners with the involvement and support of the state. Only very little of this was returned to the rightful owners upon their return after the Shoah.
Our past teaches us a lesson and poses a few questions. Where does the responsibility of the individual for their compatriots start, and where lies the responsibility of the state, allowing this to happen to its citizens. It is our joint responsibility to formulate these questions and find our way to the answers through thinking together.
What do you think about our responsibility today, bearing in mind that our time will also become a historic past one day?