The team consisting of students from grammar schools Fazekas and Bornemisza in Budapest won the “When was it? Where was it?” secondary school contest, which was one of the key events of the Wallenberg year. Ten teams, out of the 116 contesting ones, have entered to the final round. A group of students from the Lengyel József Grammar School from Oroszlány finished as second, while the bronze medal went to Farkasfalka team of the Janus Pannonius Grammar School from Pécs.
The preparedness of students resulted in excellent performances in the final. The students from Pécs earned the third place with dramatic performances according to the jury. The students dramatized with startling authenticity the story of a Holocaust survivors they had interviewed.
The final round of the competition was opened by Klára Breuer, Chief of Cabinet in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Congratulating the participants, she expressed her gratefulness for the time and efforts that the students invested in preparations to the competition. “Wallenberg stands as an example for us” she stressed. “However, when we think about rescuers, we have to think first about the victims. For the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, marking the Wallenberg anniversary is of key importance.”