History of Budapest shot them along the banks of the Danube and threw their bodies into the river. Soviet forces captured Budapest on February 13, 1945. More than 100,000 Jews remained in the city at time of capture. Upon retreating, the Germans also blew up all the Danube bridges as a way of hampering the progress of the Communist Red Army of the Soviets. A two-month-long siege of Budapest reduced the entire city, but mostly the Castle District to rubble, as it was assigned to the mostly Hungarian army with German leadership to defend and to "hold back". Most roofs in Budapest were
Budapest Week Budapest Week Budapest Week was a weekly English-language newspaper in Budapest, Hungary, founded in March 1991. It served the expatriate population and larger English-speaking population in Hungary. The paper's founders were Rick Bruner, Steve Carlson, Richard W. Bruner, Tibor Szendrei, and Blake Steinberg. "Budapest Week" was Hungary's first independent English language newspaper after the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. It was followed by competitors, notably "The Budapest Sun" and "The Budapest Business Journal". There was a newspaper that resembled "Budapest Week" and its role in the social movement of the expatriate scene there at the time in the popular