Pain still acute as Hungary's Jews mark liberation of Budapest ghetto

A man lights candle front of the Memorial Ghetto Wall during the commemoration of the liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army, 75 years ago in Budapest, Hungary January 17, 2020. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian Jews on Friday marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Budapest ghetto and the end of the Holocaust, which killed more than 500,000 Jews and destroyed a once-vibrant Jewish culture across Hungary.

"I lost 49 family members," survivor Eva Fahidi told a small crowd at the Holocaust Memorial Wall, part of the wall that once surrounded the ghetto in central Budapest. "I was 19 years old and suddenly so hated anything could be done to me."