Hungary’s Orban tells PM that it’s currently working on new Holocaust museum narrative

A senior official says that Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Brazil last night that Budapest is moving forward with a “new plan” for its Holocaust museum, which critics said could minimize the complicity of Hungarians in the murder of Jews during World War II.

Earlier this month, Hungarian government officials met in Jerusalem with representatives from the Foreign Ministry and the PMO to discuss the House of Fates museum, which Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center and some in Hungary’s Jewish community are boycotting due to the historical account presented by the museum on events leading up to and during WWII.

“The Israeli government reaffirmed its stance that it would only agree to a narrative that meets standards consistent with the objective historical and professional interpretation of organizations like Yad Vashem and similarly respected research institutes,” the PMO said in a statement at the time.