A record 10,000 Hungarians took part here Sunday in an annual march to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, amid rising racism and anti-Semitism in the country in recent months. Over 10,000 people, more than double the usual turnout, participated in the "March for Life", according to an AFP count, alongside government and opposition members, and the ambassadors of Israel and the United States. "It's important that future generations also learn the lessons from the Holocaust," organiser Laszlo Bandi told the crowd at the start of the event in downtown Budapest.

Hungary's main Jewish organisation called Wednesday for a ban on the naming of public spaces after the country's wartime leader Miklos Horthy, an ally of Adolf Hitler who oversaw the deportation of Jews. The call by the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz) followed the decision on Tuesday by the mayor of Kunhegyes, a small town in eastern Hungary, to rename a street after Horthy.