Budapest residents remember locals' role in Holocaust

Resident Tamas Marton, 84, stands at the window of his apartment in a building where the Open Society Archives organises a Holocaust commemoration in downtown Budapest, June 21, 2014. REUTERS/Marton Dunai

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Tamas Marton was a Budapest schoolboy in 1944 when Hungarians allied to Nazi Germany helped to deport half a million Jews, including his mother, to death camps.

Seventy years on, as Hungarians still grapple with the past and many support the far-right Jobbik party, the government finds itself in conflict with the Jewish community over Hungarians' role in the Holocaust.