All schoolchildren must be taken on visits to the Auschwitz death camp or the Budapest Holocaust Museum after an opposition Socialist bill was adopted by Parliament with government backing on Monday. Only the far-right party Jobbik opposed the motion. A proposal that the state should pay for the trips was rejected, however.
The Christian Democrats, junior partner in the ruling right-wing alliance, separately and successfully proposed that Budapest’s House of Terror, which chiefly deals with sordid aspects of Hungary’s communist era, be added to the official school visit list.
Lawmakers adopted a Jobbik proposal to add the site of the Recsk prison camp, where dissidents and the denounced broke rocks during the Stalinist terror of the first decade after the communist takeover.
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