Hungary has been a common home for all of us and the goal is to keep it that way in the future, said Rogán.
Rogán recalled that during the last third of the 19th century, District V had been transformed into the new centre of business, public administration and intellectual life in the city, and hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews had participated in this peaceful era of construction.
The mayor spoke about the Holocaust, when Jews were deprived of their Hungarian identity, dignity, freedom, property, and finally of their lives.
"It always comes in that order?which is why we must stop the process at the very beginning," he added.
We must testify that Hungary is home to all Hungarians living here, he said. The era of peaceful construction may only come if everybody thinks thus, he added.
Chief rabbi of the Dohány Street synagogue Róbert Frölich said that the monument was not one to the Holocaust, but to the life that sprung up from the ruins left after the Holocaust.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: MTI
