Tens of Thousands of Hungarians March Against Anti-Semitism on the Banks of the Danube River

Tens of thousands of Hungarians -- mostly Jews -- marched against anti-Semitism in a torchlight procession on the banks of the Danube River in Budapest last Sunday evening (April 18, 2010), according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) website.

State, civic, and religious dignitaries -- as well as diplomats, academics, and artists -- were among those who participated in the rally.

The March of Life, which took place at the scene of the murder of thousands of Holocaust victims by the Fascist Arrow-Cross in the winter of 1944-45, was the largest of several commemorative events taking place over the weekend to mark the 66th anniversary of the incarceration of Hungarian Jews in ghettos.

The process launched the final and deadliest phase of the Final Solution involving the deportation and murder of more than a half-million Hungarian Jews in Auschwitz and elsewhere.