In an open letter, Braham asked senior officials of Budapest’s Holocaust Memorial Centre to remove his name from the BrahamTheque Information Centre, which collects his research results and publications. He also asked them to forward his Order of Merit, Medium Cross, to the Hungarian authorities.

The professor said he had taken a “painful decision”, motivated by recent developments in Hungary, including an amendment to the constitution and “ominous measures” designed to “exonerate Hungary from responsibility for its active role played in the annihilation of nearly 600,000 Jewish citizens”. Braham said it was “the last drop” that the government had decided to erect “a national monument to the [1944] German occupation”.

A Holocaust survivor, Braham qualified the decision as a cowardly attempt to divert attention from the role played by the Horthy regime in the extermination of Jews.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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