More than 80% of the Jewish community of Győr perished during the Holocaust. Their surviving companions erected a memorial to the deportees in 1947. We must also remember those who helped their fellow Jews during the Holocaust. Bishop Vilmos Apor of Győr was the most outstanding figure, who tried to help in several ways. He protested against the establishment of the ghetto, sheltered those who asked for help, hiding them in monasteries, hospitals or in the bishop's castle. This is what he wrote to the bishop of Vác:
"Anti-Semitism cannot be condoned. Every priest from the Pope down to the last bishop must condemn it."