OMRI DAILY DIGEST
No. 23, 1 February 1996

MASS GRAVE IN AUSTRIA MAY CONTAIN BODIES OF HUNGARIAN JEWS. A mass grave
from World War II, possibly containing Hungarian victims of the
Holocaust, has been found in Lambach, eastern Austria, Hungarian dailies
reported on 1 February. Experts--including Simon Wiesenthal, head of the
Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna--say many Hungarian Jews were very
likely buried there. The grave, which is near to a death camp that held
Hungarian Jews, was discovered during the construction of a new
hydroelectric plant. Work on the plant has been suspended since the mass
grave was discovered. -- Zsofia Szilagyi

HUNGARIAN TECHNICAL BATTALION LEAVES FOR CROATIA. The last contingent of
the 400-strong Hungarian technical unit left for Croatia on 31 January
to serve as part of NATO's multinational peace-implementation force,
Hungarian dailies reported. The unit will build a bridge over the Sava
River, linking their base with an area of Bosnia populated mainly by
Serbs. Reuters the same day quoted a NATO commander as saying that the
integration of Hungarian troops into the IFOR force is going well. --
Zsofia Szilagyi

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Compiled by Jan Cleave