Hungary commemorates 1945 liberation of Budapest ghetto

Hungary's Jewish community on Sunday commemorated the 75th anniversary of the liberation by Soviet troops of the Budapest ghetto, where over 70,000 Jews were confined near the end of World War II.While some 550,000 Hungarian Jews were killed during the Holocaust in Nazi-run death camps, in forced labor battalions or by the Nazis' Hungarian allies, many Budapest Jews survived the war.Many were forced into the ghetto, others hid around the city under assumed identitiesor were helped by sympathetic