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social programs for Holocaust
survivors and their families.
It is housed in a two-story stuc-
co building which belonged to Bu-
dapest's Jewish community
before World War II, when it was
confiscated by the Nazi regime.
It was recently returned to the
Jews of the capital by the Hun-
garian government.
The building was refurbished
with funding from the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Com-
mittee and England's Central
British Fund — World Relief,
among other groups.
"This is the first full-service
Jewish community center since
the Holocaust in the former Corn-
munist bloc," said Moshe Jaho-
da, the JDC's representative in
Hungary, in a telephone inter-
view from Budapest.
An audience of some 300 peo-
ple, including local residents and
Hungarian, Israeli, American
and British dignitaries, looked on
as a Jewish children's choir sang
"Sholom Aleichem" and students
from the Anne Frank Jewish
High School performed Jewish
folk-dances.

According to JDC spokesper-
son Amir Shaviv, who attended
the ceremony, Hungarian Min-
ister of Welfare Pal Kovacs said
at the inauguration that the
country has "a past to remember.
My government has apologized
to the Jewish community for
what happened here during the
Holocaust.
"We believe that this center
will do something (to combat) ha-
tred and intolerance and we
would like it to be an example
copied all over Hungary," he said.
Also in attendance, Mr. Sha-
viv said in a telephone interview,
were the U.S. and Israeli am-
bassadors to Hungary, Donald
Blinken and Joel Alon.
While under communist rule,
Hungary's Jewish community
was estimated to number 80,000.
Since then, tens of thousands
of Hungarians have acknowl-
edged their Jewish heritage and
begun to seek ties to organized
Jewish life.
The community is now thought
to number 130,000 countrywide,
with some 80,000 residing in the
capital.

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