Liberation of Budapest Ghetto, 1945

On This Day in Jewish History: January 18, 1945

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#onthisday, 1945, Soviet troops completed the liberation of the Budapest Ghetto that began on January 17th. The Hungarian Jews who managed to survive the Nazi-Hungarian onslaught that saw 565,000 Hungarian Jews murdered in a span of 8 weeks in the summer of 1944 were finally free.

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Source: @yadvashem

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Further Readings & Sources:

https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/about/fate-of-jews/hungary.html#narrative_info

https://www.instagram.com/p/CKMMogHKVK0/

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/budapest