Hungary Holds 'Yellow Star' Holocaust Memorials

On the 70th anniversary of the forced relocation of Jews during World War II, over 1,000 Hungarians took part in some 160 Holocaust memorial events across Budapest. After a city hall decree in 1944, authorities forced some 220,000 Budapest Jews to move on June 21 into around 2,000 buildings marked with yellow Jewish Stars of David. The Jewish residents were also forced to wear the stars on their clothes for around six months while an enclosed ghetto ...