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Posted By richards on February 5, 2015

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BUDAPEST (JTA) German Chancellor Angela Merkel on a visit to Budapests Dohany Street Synagogue paid tribute to the 600,000 Hungarian Jews killed in the Holocaust.

Merkel, who is on a state visit to Hungary, on Monday laid a stone on the Jewish community memorial in the synagogue backyard. Her tour of the historic building was led by Robert Frolich, the synagogues chief rabbi.

Hungarian Jewish leaders and Merkel met for one hour at Budapest Jewish Community headquarters. The meeting lasted about half an hour longer than planned because of the very sensitive interest of Merkel, Andras Heisler, president of the Federation of the Hungarian Jewish Communities, told the Hungarian TV channel ATV.

Heisler said the meeting included five

Jewish denominations, among them the Reform and the Orthodox religious streams. He said the group discussed the question of anti-Semitism, which is increasing in Europe and also present in Hungary.

The Dohany Street Synagogue memorial is the only one in Hungary that commemorates the Hungarian Jews killed in the Holocaust. No public monuments memorialize Hungarys Jewish Holocaust victims, which is a sore subject with the countrys Jewish community.

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Merkel at Budapest synagogue remembers Hungarys Holocaust victims

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