The Report of the Directorate of the Hungarian National Jewish Museum
Any public Jewish institution that is inextricably tied to the greater Jewish community can only express its deep sorrow as it looks back over the past year. Hundreds of thousands of our brethren, the Jewry of entire countries, have been destroyed in Europe during the past cruel year of war. We read in Josephus Flavius’ writings that at the siege…
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