Holocaust tragedy of human race - Hungarian official

The Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy but a tragedy of humanity as a whole, a senior official of the ministry of public administration and justice said at an event marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday. Bence Retvari told a commemoration held in front of the Holocaust Memorial Centre in Budapest's Pava Street that the operation of the Auschwitz death camp resulted in the loss of several hundreds of thousands of Hungarians.