United States War Refugee Board, the neutral nations and the Holocaust in Hungary

In 1944, Hungary was home to 825,000 Jews, the largest Jewish community still alive in Europe. Wartime Hungary had anti-Jewish racial laws, but the country was considered a refuge for Jews escaping mass murder elsewhere, but this ended in March 1944 when the country was occupied by Nazi Germany. Between 15 May and 7 July 1944, more than 437,000 Jews were deported, mainly from the countryside, to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp where most were murdered. Reacting to international pressure, Miklos Horthy, the Hungarian head of government ordered an end to the deportations. The War Refugee Board was an independent government agency established in 1944, in order to address the problem that the United States do something about Nazi atrocities. The neutral nations responded in different ways to WRB requests