Day of Remembrance for the Hungarian Victims of the Holocaust

16 April marks the Day of Remembrance for the Hungarian Victims of the Holocaust. It was on this day 80 years ago, in 1944, that members of the Hungarian administration and the Hungarian police, collaborating with the Nazi occupiers, began to set up the first ghettos and concentration camps.
Hungarian Jews had already been subjected to a number of restrictive measures, but their lives were put in immediate danger when Nazi Germany occupied the country in March 1944. On 16 April, the first ghettos and collective camps were set up in what was then Hungary, where Jews, deprived of all rights, were detained in inhuman conditions and deported to German death camps shortly afterwards. The number of victims of the Holocaust in Hungary is estimated at 550 000-600 000.