Hungarian schools to commemorate Holocaust

Schools in Hungary are to commemorate the Holocaust for the first time this year.

The Education Minister Zoltan Pokorni said the Holocaust was part of the nation's history.

He said the aim of marking it was to not to arouse a guilty conscience but rather a sense of responsibility in today's children.

Holocaust Day in Hungary will be held on April the Seventeenth, the anniversary of the creation of the country's first Jewish ghetto at Munkacs, a town now in Ukraine. Sixty per cent of the million Jews who lived in Hungary before the Second World War were killed in Nazi death camps. Hungarian television reported yesterday that anti-Semitic graffiti had been found on the wall of a disused synagogue at Sopron in western Hungary.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service