In this paper I will explain what happened to the Jews of interwar Hungary. I will use as a reference for my paper the article entitled Hungary written by Ezra Mendelsohn.         After WWI, Hungary was reduced considerably in size as a result of its losses of the war and the signing of the Trianon treaty. They had lost more that seventy- percent of its former territories and sixty-percent of its population. Hungary was no longer …showed first 75 words of 3299 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3299 total…a crucial role for the Magyars prior to WWI but after the war this was changed. This article along with the movie Sunshine puts the situation of the Jews in Hungary in a much better perspective. The Jews through their desire to assimilate believed that within Hungary they would be accepted as true Hungarians but this only lead to the death and destruction of many Jewish lives under the Nazi and Stalin regime that followed.