Fixler added that there should be enough kosher-for-Passover matzah to last through the holiday. More than 22,000 pounds of matzah was produced in the community’s own bakery, in what used to be an Orthodox Jewish enclave in downtown Budapest before World War II.

With approximately 100,000 Jews, the Hungarian community is the largest in Central Europe.

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