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The Holocaust in Hungary

During the Holocaust (1933–1945), the Hungarian government persecuted and murdered Jews on its own initiative and in collaboration with Nazi German authorities. The Holocaust in Hungary affected Jewish communities both within the country and in its annexed territories in central and eastern Europe. In total, some 825,000 Jews were under Hungarian control during World War II. About 550,000 of them were killed in the Holocaust.