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The conference was organised by the Holocaust Memorial Center, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Public Administration.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs state secretary Zsolt Németh acknowledged people like Raoul Wallenberg and János Esterházy for standing up for life, for the lives of others, even if it often put their own lives at risk.
They could say no even in the darkest period of the Nazi regime and serve as examples of rescuers even today, he said.
Israeli ambassador to Hungary Ilan Mor recalled the actions of Wallenberg, who saved several thousand, or by some accounts as many as 20,000, Jews during the Holocaust, a period when ?humanity showed its worst face?.
The historian Martina Fiamova, who works for the Slovakian National Memorial Institute, said János Esterházy had attacked anti-Jewish resolutions of the government in 1940 and again in 1942. She added that he did not support the deportation of the country?s Jews in a vote in the Slovak parliament.
Swedish ambassador to Hungary Karin Olofsdotter said human rights are today a part of international law, but people are still killed because of the religious or ethnic group to which they belong.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: MTI
