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1944
Hungary
Antisemitism

Establishment of the Budapest Ghetto

The Budapest Ghetto was created on 29 November 1944 by Hungarian authorities under Nazi direction, confining more than 70,000 Jews in a walled, overcrowded district of the old Jewish Quarter. Conditions were catastrophic: starvation, disease, and Arrow Cross terror claiming thousands of lives before Soviet liberation in January 1945, as militias routinely removed Jews for execution along the Danube embankment.

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