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Film released about far-right politician who found out he was Jewish

March 3, 2017 10:52
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A documentary has been released about a far-right Hungarian politician who discovered he was Jewish.

Keep Quiet is about Czanad Szegedi, who was one of the founders of the antisemitic Jobbik party.

In 2012, a rival within the party revealed that Mr Szegedi’s maternal grandmother was Jewish – and a survivor of Auschwitz. In the documentary, Mr Szegedi described the revelation as being "like a dagger through my heart", and that he felt he “had nowhere to turn.".

He approached a local rabbi in Budapest, who in the documentary describes how he felt he had to take Mr Szegedi at his word and help him discover more about his heritage.

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