In October 1944, tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews were shot on the banks of the river and their bodies dumped in the water as part of mass executions by members of the Arrow Cross party.

98-year-old charged with 'unlawful execution, torture' of Jews during World War II Hungarian Laszlo Csatary is suspected of war crimes against Jews during World War II. Laszlo Balogh / Reuters, file ...

Divers from an Israeli search-and-rescue organization will search the Danube River in Hungary for the remains of Jewish Holocaust victims shot nearly 75 years ago.

Thousands of Jews were murdered on the banks of the Danube by members of the Hungarian Nazi-allied Arrow Cross Party in 1944. The victims were among the roughly 600,000 Hungarian Jews wiped out ...