House of Terror (Budapest)

**House of Terror**
	; Front view of the House of Terror
Data
place	Budapest , Hungary
Art	Hungarian history
architect	Attila F. Kovács
opening	February 24, 2002
management	Mária Schmidt
Website	terrorhaza.hu

Showroom

The Terror Háza (German: House of Terror ) is a historical museum in Budapest designed as a memorial . It is located at Andrássy út 60 and is intended to commemorate both the rule of the fascist Arrow Cross (1944–1945) and the Marxist-Leninist dictatorship of the Communists (1949–1989) in Hungary and contrasts both regimes in its exhibition.

History of the museum

History of use of the museum building

The palace, which was built in the neo-Renaissance style in 1880 according to the plans of Adolf Feszty , was originally owned by Jews. From 1937 to 1944 it served as the seat and prison of the Hungarian Arrow Cross Party of Ferenc Szálasi , called the "House of Loyalty" (Hűség háza). In 1945 it was first taken over by the political police (PRO) and then the headquarters of its successor organization, the communist state security service ÁVO or ÁVH . During the Stalinist era, he used it as a torture prison. In its final state, the prison encompassed the subterranean area under the entire surrounding city block through gradual expansion. After the popular uprising in 1956, it was converted into the center of the Communist Youth Association KISZ .

Establishment of the museum

During the tenure of Viktor Orbán's first government from 1998–2002, the desire grew louder and louder to erect a memorial for the victims of both dictatorships. That is why the Foundation for Research on Eastern and Central European History and Society bought the building and converted it. It got a black passe-partout made of symbolic knife blades. A museum has been located here since February 2002, which is dedicated to both the history of the Arrow Cross and the communist regime. Currently, two of the more than 20 exhibition rooms deal with Hungarians during the Nazi era, the rest deal with the communist dictatorship.

The concept of the House of Terror led to controversy in the run-up to the opening. The criticism was initially directed against the party-political appropriation of the house with the tendency to equate two dictatorial regimes by presenting them together. Another strong criticism is the fact that Miklós Horthy's regime has largely refrained from discussing the cooperation between the Nazis and the Nazis, and thus the suppression of Hungarian co-responsibility for the Holocaust, as well as the Hungarian victim narrative represented in the museum.

In addition to the permanent exhibition, there are temporary exhibitions, e.g. B. on the subjects of George Orwell and Arthur Koestler .

literature

Regina Fritz: After the war and the murder of the Jews. Hungary's politics of history since 1944 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1058-2 .

Éva Kovács: The cynical and the ironic. In memory of communism in Hungary , in: Transit. European Review 30 (2006), pp. 88-105.

Magdalena Marsovszky: “The martyrs are the Magyars”. The Holocaust in Hungary from the perspective of the House of Terror in Budapest and the ethnicization of memory in Hungary . In: Claudia Globisch u. a. (Ed.): The dynamics of the European right. History, continuities and change . Springer VS , Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17191-3 , pp. 55-74 .

Brigitte Mihok: The “House of Terror” in Budapest: A reflection of the national interpretation of history? In: Yearbook for Research on Antisemitism . tape 19 , 2010, ISBN 978-3-940938-92-3 , pp. 363-378 .

Mária Schmidt : Terror Háza: house of terror . Budapest 2003.

Krisztián Ungváry : Dealing with the communist past in today's Hungarian culture of remembrance , in: Bernd Faulenbach / Franz-Josef Jelich (eds.): Transformations of cultures of remembrance in Europe after 1989 , Essen 2006, pp. 201–220.

Web links

Commons : House of Terror - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Ruth Ellen Gruber: Plan To Open Another Holocaust Museum in Budapest Faces Criticism — From Jews , January 10, 2014, on tablet

Individual evidence

^ Richard C. Schneider : The Holocaust Museum of Budapest . In: The time . No. 24 , June 3, 2004, ISSN 0044-2070 ( Zeit.de [accessed February 28, 2018]).
^ Ljiljana Radonić : Struggle for the "correct" memory. In: Homepage of the ORF . ORF , December 5, 2016, accessed on February 28, 2018 .
↑ Ilse Huber: The House of Terror in Budapest. Controversial museum about Hungary's contemporary history. In: Homepage of the ORF . ORF , October 23, 2006, archived from the original on July 12, 2012 ; accessed on February 28, 2018 .

47.506805555556 19.065138888889Coordinates: 47 ° 30 '24.5 " N , 19 ° 3' 54.5" E

[1] Richard C. Schneider : The Holocaust Museum of Budapest . In: The time . No. 24 , June 3, 2004, ISSN 0044-2070 ( Zeit.de [accessed February 28, 2018]).

[2] Ljiljana Radonić : Struggle for the "correct" memory. In: Homepage of the ORF . ORF , December 5, 2016, accessed on February 28, 2018 .

[3] Ilse Huber: The House of Terror in Budapest. Controversial museum about Hungary's contemporary history. In: Homepage of the ORF . ORF , October 23, 2006, archived from the original on July 12, 2012 ; accessed on February 28, 2018 .