This article focuses on the opening of the Holocaust Memorial Centre museum in Budapest, Hungary. Hungarians agree about little in their turbulent history. But on one issue they have been as one: that they bear little responsibility for the Hungarian Holocaust, in which over 500,000 Hungarian Jews were killed. This view may be challenged by the opening of the Holocaust Memorial Centre, based around a restored synagogue on Pava Street in the capital, Budapest, that was used as an internment camp in 1944. The opening was attended by a host of dignitaries, including the prime minister, Peter Medgyessy, and his predecessor, Viktor Orban; from abroad came France's finance minister, Nicolas Sarkozy (who is of Hungarian descent), and Israel's president, Moshe Katsav. To add drama, a Budapest imam was arrested, with two Syrians, on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act against a Jewish target to coincide with the opening. Until the Nazis invaded Hungary in March 1944, Hungary's 800,000 Jews had lived in comparative safety, hoping to escape the horrors all around. The confusion is shown in the Museum of Military History in Budapest, where two memorials pay homage to those who lost their lives in the second world war: one to Jewish victims, and another to paramilitary gendarmes who put them on the trains.