Admiral Miklos Horthy, the Hungarian Regent, ordered a halt to the deportation of Hungarian Jews to the extermination camps in the East. Nevertheless, for the next two days, the deportation teams continued working, eradicating Jewish communities in western Hungary near Budapest. Between May 15 and the cessation of deportations on July 9, 437,351 Jews had been taken to the death camps. All of Hungary was Judenrein except for the capital, Budapest.
