Holocaust Victims' Remains Laid to Rest in Hungary 

A tragic milestone dating all the way back to World War II took place recently as the remains of Jewish citizens murdered by the Nazis were finally laid to rest. The bones were found in the Danube River in Budapest, Hungary, five years ago.

The victims are believed to have been among the many Hungarian Jews who were shot on the banks of the Danube or dumped there by pro-Nazi militiamen in 1944 or 1945. They were discovered during construction work on Budapest's Margaret Bridge.

The government first intended to bury the bones in a city cemetery, but the Jewish community objected.

They had the remains DNA tested, which proved the bones were likely of Ashkenazi Jews, and the government agreed to give the two wooden caskets filled with hundreds of bone fragments a Jewish burial.

Attendees placed pebbles atop a memorial tomb inscribed with the words from the prophet Ezekiel, "Son of man, shall these bones revive?"

Rabbi Peter Kardos, a Holocaust survivor himself, said the funeral was for him "really hard since I am one of the few who saw all these events happening 72 years ago."

Under the Nazi-allied government, thousands of Hungarian Jews were murdered in Budapest and nearly 80,000 were expelled from Hungary in a death march to the Austrian border.

Inscribed on a memorial in their honor are the words, "They were killed by hatred, may their memories be kept by love."