The President of Hungary honoured the victims of the Holocaust in Auschwitz

Dr. Tamás Sulyok, President of Hungary, paid a private visit to the memorial museum created at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp.

The Hungarian Head of State bowed his head and placed flowers of respect at the Wall of Death, where thousands of people were shot dead. He then lit a candle in memory of the Hungarian victims of the Holocaust at Camp I, and then at the Hungarian-language memorial plaque at Camp II, Auschwitz-Birkenau.

In his entry in the Auschwitz Book of Remembrance, the President of Hungary wrote: "I came here because every Hungarian must come here one day to see what human evil is capable of. The lives destroyed here cannot be forgotten and cannot be replaced. A large number of them were my compatriots, part of our nation. Walking through the barracks, I feel that pain or sadness is not enough. What we need is a firm commitment to good and against evil. We must never let anyone be taken from us again."