<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>RCK asked: <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
what exactly happened on the 20th of Sivan in 1944 that is considered the beginning of the Holocaust in Hungary? The secular date was 11 June, 1944 and I do not see that day as bearing any significance in the history of the Holocaust.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>It would be hard to point to any particular date as being *the* start of the Holocaust in Hungary, and if one date must be chosen then a pre-existing one is as good as any other. I suppose this time of year was chosen because it marks the mass deportations of Jews to Auschwitz. They had in fact started around a month before, but who is to say that this was known to the people setting the date? People had other things on their mind at the time. <br>
<br></div><div>Joe Slater<br></div></div></div></div>