Budapest ghetto liberation anniversary marked in Dohany Street Synagogue

A commemoration was held in Budapest's Dohany Street Synagogue on Friday to mark the 74th anniversary of the liberation of the city's ghetto. Addressing the ceremony, Szabolcs Takacs, state secretary at the PM's Office, called the Holocaust "one of the heaviest burdens in the history of our nation, which we can never forget". Remembering the Holocaust is a "joint responsibility for us", the state secretary said. The Hungarian government will not tolerate hatred or any threat that would jeopardise "the unity and peace of the nation or Europe's Jewish-Christian culture", Takacs said, noting that the government has declared "zero tolerance" for anti-Semitism.