On 16 May, MHM Manager of Adult Education Dr Simon Holloway will present a lecture in collabration with B'nai B'rith, exploring the Holocaust experience for Jewish communities living in Hungary.

In 1944, the Jewish communities of Hungary made up some of the last remaining Jews in all of Axis-controlled Europe. The tragic story of their annihilation is all the more macabre when one considers that it happened under the gaze of the entire world, who well know what deportation meant. In this lecture, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the deportations from Hungary, we will explore the peculiar situation faced by Hungarian Jews in light of their prewar experiences, the means by which they were so rapidly destroyed, and some of the heroic attempts made at the 11th hour to rescue them.

Image | A memorial to the murdered Jews in Hungary, on the Danube river, Hungary.