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The monument - stylised, slanting gravestones sunk into a hill - is the work of the sculptor László Kutas and the architect Barnabás Winkler.
"It is our responsibility to remember and tell the generations growing up today that only six decades ago, Hungarians hunted, humiliated and killed other Hungarians in the spirit of a cruel and senseless ideology," state secretary at the Ministry of Education and Culture Gergely Arató said at the dedication. "We must not allow -- whether out of cowardice, carelessness or irresponsibility -- the proliferation of ideologies that incite racism today."
"All people of good intention must be brought here in order for them to see where hatred leads," said Szabolcs Szita, the chief historian for the Holocaust Foundation, which started the movement to erect the monument.
Some 8,000 Jews and other prisoners died in the Sáncásó camps in the winter of 1944 and the spring of 1945, among them the writers Antal Szerb, Gábor Halász and György Sárközi.
Tamás Fodor, mayor of the nearby city of Sopron, said the monument was erected with the support of central government organisations, the local council of Sopron and Zukunftsfonds of Vienna.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: László Czika (MTI)
