Like every weekend of February 11, Budapest was transformed into a memorial battleground between neo-Nazis and anti-fascists from all over Europe.
Saturday morning, anti-fascist organizations gathered on the banks of the Danube, at the Shoe Memorial dedicated to the Jewish victims shot and thrown into the river by the Arrow Cross, the Hungarian pro-Nazis, during the winter of 1944-1945.
“I am German Jewish.
Many members of my family, originally from Poland, were killed in Auschwitz.
It is our duty to stand up against the resurgence of the extreme right that we are witnessing almost everywhere in Europe
,” says Rahel, a woman in her fifties from Vienna.
“I also want to go see with my own eyes these people in German uniforms who come to reenact the Second World War…”
.
On the other side of the Danube, a good thousand people gathered in the castle district to
“commemorate the Hungarian and German soldiers who heroically defended…
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