The thousands who remained in the ghetto were reduced to one portion of watery soup a day until liberation finally came on January 18, 1945.
* * * * * An amazing thing about the Final Solution in Hungary was that the imminent triumph of the Allied forces neither stopped nor even slowed the frenzied efforts of the Nazis and their cohorts to eradicate the Jewish people.
They were overtaken by a seething hatred for which there was no palliative.
An extremely sad thing about the Final Solution in Hungary was that the Allies could have slowed down the liquidation by bombing Auschwitz or destroying the railway lines leading to it. They did nothing of the kind.
As it had done during the earlier years of the Holocaust, the world stood by silently while nearly 600,000 of the Six Million were being led to slaughter.
