Hungarian cantor and wife called ‘filthy Jews who belong in the gas chamber’

Five men hurled antisemitic abuse at Daniel Rosenfeld and his wife in the town of Nyíregyháza, which is 120 miles east of the capital Budapest

Five young men in Hungary told a Jewish community activist on the street that he and his wife they are “filthy Jews” who “belong in the gas chamber,” the alleged victims told police.

In the Aug. 18 incident in Nyíregyháza, Daniel Rosenfeld and his wife were returning from praying at the local synagogue when the men approached them, the Jewish newspaper Szombat reported last week. Rosenfeld is a cantor and chairman of the Commemorative Committee for the Hungarian Jewish Freedom Fighters.

“There was also spitting and yelling ‘Filthy Jews belong in the gas chamber, off to the gas chamber with them,” Rosenfeld told Szombat. They also shouted the Nazi salute “Sieg Heil,” he said.

Police began a search using closed circuit television footage, Szombat reported.

Antisemitic intimidation on the street is relatively rare in Hungary, where about 100,000 Jews live.

Nyiregyhaza is a city situated about 120 miles east of Budapest.