On Sunday, attendees walked from the Dohány Street Synagogue, also known as the Great Synagogue—the largest synagogue in Europe—to Budapest-Keleti, or Eastern Railway Station, some two kilometers away.

Nearly 100 Holocaust survivors led the march, guiding the younger generations.

Originally envisioned as an educational program to teach about the horrors of the Holocaust, this year’s March of the Living in the Hungarian capital also honored those killed during Hamas’ October 7 attack in Israel.

Budapest-Keleti was the site of the first deportation of Hungarian Jews to the German Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, then-occupied Poland.

According to Israel’s largest Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, over 550,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.