Hungary: Wiesenthal Center Blasts Government’s Attempt to Intimidate Jewish Community

The Simon Wiesenthal Center today called on the Hungarian government to work with the Hungarian Jewish community and to refrain from attempts to intimidate it. Mark Weitzman, the Wiesenthal Center’s Director of Government Affairs who protested the recent comments in a conversation with Hungary’s Ambassador to the US, Gyorgy Szapary, said: “The recent statement of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff Janos Lazar (pictured) that Holocaust commemorations in Hungary, “face failure because of the absence of Mazsihisz” (the Hungarian Jewish umbrella organization) is a blatant attempt to intimidate the Hungarian Jewish community into accepting a flawed process that appears to be aimed more at whitewashing Hungarian collaboration then at honestly remembering the Holocaust in Hungary.” 

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