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April 16· Anniversary
Holocaust Memorial Day
Since 2001 Hungary has remembered the victims of the Holocaust on this date, linked to the creation of the first ghettos in 1944.
Since 2001, 16 April has been Holocaust Memorial Day in Hungary. The date marks the creation of the first ghettos in the country in April 1944.
Within a few months in 1944 about 600,000 Hungarian Jews were killed, most of them deported to Auschwitz. The iron shoes on the Danube bank and the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest keep the memory of this tragedy alive.
Remembrance
Schools hold history lessons, commemorations take place at the Holocaust Memorial Center and in synagogues, and a March of the Living is held.
Photos
The Shoes on the Danube Bank memorial in Budapest · Dennis G. Jarvis / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 
Shoes on the Danube Bank · Andrew Milligan sumo / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 
Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest · Takkk / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 
Memorial wall bearing the victims' names · Takkk / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 
The memorial wall · Takkk / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 
The Danube bank in Budapest · Marek Mróz / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hungary: other days
- January 1New Year's Day
- January 22Day of Hungarian Culture
- February 25Memorial Day for the Victims of Communism
- March 15Day of the 1848 Revolution
- May 1Labour Day
- June 4Day of National Unity
- August 20State Foundation Day (St Stephen's Day)
- October 3Founding of the Organization of Turkic States
- October 6Memorial Day for the Martyrs of Arad
- October 231956 Revolution and Republic Day
- November 1All Saints' Day
- December 25Christmas
- 50 days after Easter, Sunday and Monday; May – JunePentecost (Pünkösd)
- Sunday and Monday after the first spring full moon; late March – AprilEaster
- The Friday before Easter; late March – AprilGood Friday