![Portrait of members of a Hungarian Jewish family. [LCID: 07606]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/9e82af62-5edd-4494-947a-b471cee58740.jpg "Portrait of members of a Hungarian Jewish family. [LCID: 07606]")
Portrait of members of a Hungarian Jewish family. They were deported to and killed in Auschwitz soon after this photo was taken. Kapuvar, Hungary, June 8, 1944.
Item View![Families and friends of Jewish victims killed in the Budapest ghetto search for the exhumed corpses of friends and relatives. [LCID: 68618]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/ac3cc6f8-0ae6-42fd-81cd-c43307ca32ec.jpg "Families and friends of Jewish victims killed in the Budapest ghetto search for the exhumed corpses of friends and relatives. [LCID: 68618]")
Families and friends of Jewish victims killed in the Budapest ghetto search for the exhumed corpses of friends and relatives. Budapest, Hungary, January, 1945.
Item View![Victims of German SS and Hungarian Arrow Cross terror in the ghetto, found in the courtyard of the Pestor synagogue on Dohany Street. [LCID: 66006]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/5ef961ff-e285-4095-b8e8-f73edfec764b.jpg "Victims of German SS and Hungarian Arrow Cross terror in the ghetto, found in the courtyard of the Pestor synagogue on Dohany Street. [LCID: 66006]")
Victims of German SS and Hungarian Arrow Cross terror in the Budapest ghetto. The bodies were found in the courtyard of the Pestor synagogue on Dohany Street. Budapest, Hungary, January 1945.
Item View![Elderly Jews are transferred from their assigned houses to a ghetto area. [LCID: 66103]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/ca0e2171-9907-4865-962b-48fe701f7987.jpg "Elderly Jews are transferred from their assigned houses to a ghetto area. [LCID: 66103]")
Elderly Jews are transferred from their assigned houses to a ghetto area. Budapest, Hungary, November or December 1944.
Item View![Arrow Cross Party members execute Jews along the banks of the Danube River. [LCID: 86152]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/0b7617a9-ccb8-4da7-89ec-6bbe7573fa76.jpg "Arrow Cross Party members execute Jews along the banks of the Danube River. [LCID: 86152]")
Arrow Cross Party members execute Jews along the banks of the Danube River. Budapest, Hungary, 1944.
Item View![Members of the fascist Arrow Cross Party arrest Jews. [LCID: 76523]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/18f09b2e-7836-4824-af96-1ae8a663d1e6.jpg "Members of the fascist Arrow Cross Party arrest Jews. [LCID: 76523]")
Members of the fascist Arrow Cross Party arrest Jews. Budapest, Hungary, October-December 1944.
Item View![Members of the Arrow Cross Party after taking over power. [LCID: 86154]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/09a3c6dc-8e68-4be7-b3e2-e9ff93c36043.jpg "Members of the Arrow Cross Party after taking over power. [LCID: 86154]")
Members of the Arrow Cross Party after taking over power. Budapest, Hungary, October 17, 1944.
Item View![Members of the Arrow Cross after taking power. Budapest, Hungary, October 1944. [LCID: 76520]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/37957cf6-ccc6-4720-b06d-60125183f6cc.jpg "Members of the Arrow Cross after taking power. Budapest, Hungary, October 1944. [LCID: 76520]")
Members of the Arrow Cross after taking power. Budapest, Hungary, October 1944.
Item View![A synagogue used as a warehouse for the belongings of deported Jews. [LCID: 66000b]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/db27bd11-5ede-463f-81b8-f001e910bfa3.jpg "A synagogue used as a warehouse for the belongings of deported Jews. [LCID: 66000b]")
A synagogue used as a warehouse for the belongings of deported Jews. Szeged ghetto, Hungary, 1944.
Item View![A deserted street in the area of the Sighet Marmatiei ghetto. [LCID: 10468]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/8fb0d1e9-2927-45bd-8ebe-d276e226b394.jpg "A deserted street in the area of the Sighet Marmatiei ghetto. [LCID: 10468]")
A deserted street in the area of the Sighet Marmatiei ghetto. This photograph was taken after the deportation of the ghetto population. Sighet Marmatiei, Hungary, May 1944.
Item View![Jewish residents of the Szeged ghetto assemble for deportation. [LCID: 37207]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/0fbf9dd0-98e7-4dfc-8d77-c46a31bda8dd.jpg "Jewish residents of the Szeged ghetto assemble for deportation. [LCID: 37207]")
Jewish residents of the Szeged ghetto assemble for deportation. Szeged, Hungary, June 1944.
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Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, walk toward the gas chambers. May 1944.
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A transport of Hungarian Jews lines up on the ramp for selection at the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland. May 1944.
In mid-May 1944, the Hungarian authorities, in coordination with the German Security Police, began to systematically deport the Hungarian Jews. SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann was chief of the team of "deportation experts" that worked with the Hungarian authorities. The Hungarian police carried out the roundups and forced the Jews onto the deportation trains.
In less than two months, nearly 440,000 Jews were deported from Hungary in more than 145 trains.
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A transport of Jews from Hungary arrives at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Poland, May 1944.
Item View![Deportation of Hungarian Jews. Koszeg, Hungary, May 1944. [LCID: 68629c]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/83d6a419-8abd-41d5-a19b-7d5b3e1eff4b.jpg "Deportation of Hungarian Jews. Koszeg, Hungary, May 1944. [LCID: 68629c]")
Jewish deportees marching down a main street of Koszeg during the deportation of Hungarian Jews. Koszeg, Hungary, May 1944.
Item View![Guards check the identification papers of women entering the ghetto in Munkacs, in a part of Czechoslovakia annexed by Hungary in ... [LCID: 74260]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/85e177fb-8e7f-46a4-bba7-3108fbf0ccc6.jpg "Guards check the identification papers of women entering the ghetto in Munkacs, in a part of Czechoslovakia annexed by Hungary in ... [LCID: 74260]")
Guards check the identification papers of women entering the ghetto in Munkacs, in a part of Czechoslovakia annexed by Hungary in 1938. Czechoslovakia, 1944.
Item View![Hungarian Jews with yellow stars, at the time of the liberation of the Budapest ghetto. [LCID: 27208]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/31882fbd-0e17-457c-b1d2-38571ca7418d.jpg "Hungarian Jews with yellow stars, at the time of the liberation of the Budapest ghetto. [LCID: 27208]")
Hungarian Jews with yellow stars, at the time of the liberation of the Budapest ghetto. Hungary, January 1945.
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