March in Hungary remembers the Holocaust

By Pablo Gorondi

Published April 25, 2014 3:09pm ET

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March in Hungary remembers the Holocaust — In this picture taken Wednesday, April 23, 2014, participants of the program March for Life walk on the first ten kilometer section of their march between Sopron and Budapest in the region of Sopron, 208 kms west of Budapest, Hungary. Some 250 Germans have been joined by dozens of Hungarians on a five-day walk along the route taken by tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews who were marched to Germany and Austria as forced laborers at the end of World War II. Many of them died. (AP Photo/MTI, Peter Nyikos) | Peter Nyikos

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Seeking atonement for their relatives, the grandchildren of some of those involved in the Holocaust joined the annual March of Life walk this year as it shifted to Hungary.

Dozens of Hungarians joined about 250 Germans on the trek — a five-day walk along the route taken by tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews who were marched to Germany and Austria as forced laborers at the end of World War II.

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