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| Chabad Hungary joins Holocaust museum project boycotted by other Jewish groups |
| 2018-09-08 |
| [Times of Israel] Hungary’s controversial Holocaust museum will open next year despite opposition by some in the Jewish community to its premise and staff, according to a government statement. Gergely Gulyás, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office, said Friday at a news conference that the House of Fates will open in Budapest in 2019, four years after the building for the new institution was completed. The local Chabad community has replaced the country’s other Jewish federation of communities as a partner in the museum, according to the report. "The horrors of the Nazi and communist dictatorships of the 20th century must never be forgotten," Gulyás said, according to the MTI news agency. "The fact that Hungary’s Jews were shipped off to death camps after the German invasion of March 19, 1944 doesn’t absolve the state ... of the crime of failing to protect its citizens. There’s no collective guilt, only state responsibility." |
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