An elderly man holds a sign reading 'Never again' as he takes part in a 'March for Life Hungary' at the oldest Hungarian bridge the 'Lanchid' (Chain Bridge' of Budapest on April 16, 2017. (AFP Photo/Attila Kisbenedek)
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Thousands of Hungarians have taken part in a march remembering the 550,000 Hungarian Jews who died during the Holocaust.
The March of the Living on Sunday was held on Hungary’s national Holocaust Memorial Day, which marks the mass detention and deportation of Hungary’s Jews in 1944.
Speakers called for tolerance and facing up to the truth.
Hungarian Jewish writer Gabor Szanto said: “No nation bears collective guilt for the past, but we all have a personal responsibility for the present and the future.”
This was the 15th year the march has been held.
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People take part in a ‘March for Life Hungary’ at the oldest Hungarian bridge the ‘Lanchid’ (Chain Bridge’ of Budapest on April 16, 2017. (AFP Photo/Attila Kisbenedek)
Near the end of the event, amateur runner Peter Hajdu began an eight-day run covering 420 kilometers (260 miles) to Auschwitz, Poland. Many of Hungary’s Jews who died during the Holocaust perished at the Nazi death camp in Auschwitz.
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