“Seventy years after those events we commemorate the courageous who risked or even sacrificed their lives to save Jews and others in peril,” Pintér said.

“We cannot and will not tolerate that anyone should be stigmatised, humiliated or assaulted because of their ethnicity or religious denomination... it is our task and mission to prevent developments at the time of the Holocaust from happening again,” the minister said.

The ambassador paid tribute to those that had “stood by their Jewish countrymen” and said that “survivors in Israel will not forget about their saviours”.

Europe has “gone a long way” since the Holocaust, Mor said, but warned that “freedom, again, is in danger”.

He said that tolerance for anti-Semitism or arguing for that ideology was unacceptable. Anti-Semitism again gaining ground is dangerous not only for Jewish communities but for democracy, freedom, equality or pluralism globally.

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