Holokauszt Emlékközpont

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The Holokauszt Emlékközpont Documentation Center in Budapest , also named analogous to the American name Holocaust Memorial Center , was opened in 2004 in the Páva Synagogue and the subsequent new building by István Mányi after several years of preparatory work. Budapest is Holokauszt Emlékközpont next to the Historical Museum , the Jewish Museum in the Great Synagogue in Dohany Street and the Terror Háza Múzeum (House of Terror , the former seat of the Hungarian Arrow Cross Party ) the fourth place to the extermination of the Jews (especially in Hungary during the Second World War ) is documented and researched with different focuses. Hundreds of thousands of Jewish Hungarians were murdered. After the German occupation of Hungary in the spring and early summer of 1944, the majority of the Hungarian Jews outside Budapest were deported by train from the Eichmann Command under Adolf Eichmann to the Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered there. State institutions in the provincial administrations and the gendarmerie and the members of the Arrow Cross Party worked extensively as collaborators in the ghettoization , deportation and persecution of Hungarian Jews .

management

From 2009 to May 2011, the director of the documentation center was László Harsányi, who was dismissed by the newly constituted supervisory board chaired by György Haraszti after a dispute over the content of the exhibition. The main focus of the dispute was the assessment of the involvement of the Hungarian Horthy regime (1920–1944) in the mass murder of Hungarian citizens of the Jewish faith. Szabolcs Szita was appointed acting director of the museum / research facility.

Plan of a Holocaust Museum

The museum is said to be on the site of the disused Jozsefvaros train station, where many Hungarian Jews were deported. A Star of David between towers with facades that resemble assembled wagons marks the entrance. The name will be House of Fates , after the novel Fateless by Imre Kertesz . The controversial historian Mária Schmidt is responsible for planning .

See also

  • Hungary in World War II (there in particular the section The Extermination of the Hungarian Jews )
  • Shoes on the Danube Bank (The memorial from 2005 particularly commemorates the persecution of Budapest Jews by the Arrow Cross members)

literature

  • Szita Szabolcs: Hungary in Mauthausen. Hungarian prisoners in SS camps on the territory of Austria . Federal Ministry of the Interior, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-9502183-4-3 , ( Mauthausen Studies 4).
  • Szita Szabolcs: Deported , starved, destroyed. The deportation of Hungarian Jews to the territory of annexed Austria 1944-1945. With a foreword by György Konrád . Werner Eichbauer Verlag, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-901699-10-4 .

Web links

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Head of memorial deposed . Die Tageszeitung (online edition), May 20, 2011, accessed on May 20, 2011, 3:30 p.m.
  2. ↑ Joanna Kakissis: Hungary's New Holocaust Museum Is not Open Yet, But It's Already Causing Concern. npr, February 7, 2019, accessed October 15, 2019 .

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