Australian Governor-General visits Hungarian Jewish community

Sir Peter Cosgrove, Governor-General of Australia has visited the MAZSIHISZ – Federation of Jewish Communities in Hungary.

Sir Peter was welcomed by Mazsihisz President András Heisler and by Dr. Róbert Frölich, Chief Rabbi of Hungary.

After visiting the Dohány Street synagogue, Sir Peter placed a stone of remembrance at the Emanuel Tree in memory of the six-hundred thousand Hungarian Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

Jozsef Apro, a member of the Hungarian Jewish community, Holocaust survivor and veteran of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution also participated at the meeting. He is a Major General and after the revolution, he emigrated to Australia where he became a fighter pilot and worked engaged in a career of engineering.

Sir Peter was born in Sydney in 1947. He fought in the Vietnam war, and was promoted many times while he served as Chief of the Defence Forces from 2002-2005.

He is a close friend to the Australian Jewish community. A former Chairman of the General Sir John Monash Foundation, he has recently become Patron-in-Chief of the Foundation.

Since 2014, he has been Governor-General of Australia.

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