Australia is no longer safe for Jews, say Holocaust survivors

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I'll be retiring to Australia in the future, and these stories are heartbreaking to hear. I can only hope that these concerns will be addressed more seriously, but I sincerely have my doubts.

For Peter Halas, Australia was his haven after fleeing Hungary, where the Nazis had murdered his mother and grandparents.

He was five when he last saw his mother. They had been hiding in Budapest in 1944, as thousands of other Jews were sent to Auschwitz, when she sneaked out to wish her father happy birthday.

The home where her parents were staying was raided by the Nazis, and she never returned. Mr Halas, 86, told The Telegraph: “They took them down to the banks of the Danube and shot them.”

At 17, he fled post-war communist Hungary and settled in Sydney, where he has been living for 68 years with his wife – also a Hungarian Holocaust survivor.

But Mr Halas is now questioning whether Australia is safe for Jewish people. He is too afraid to wear his Star of David in public, knowing it would make him a target.

MSN