Task Force For International Cooperation On Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research

Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research in Hungary

The Hungarian government has assumed responsibility for what happened during World War Two and its collaboration with the Nazi government. It is facing its own history. Close cooperation with international organisations is vital for Hungary, therefore it became a member of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research in 2002 during the French Chairmanship, and chaired the organisation in 2006.

Education
Remembrance
Research

International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2013

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Israeli Cultural Institute

(1 Paulay Ede u., 1062 Budapest)

The Voice of Female Survivors. Special event dedicated to the International Holocaust Memorial Day

Lectures by Teri Szűcs (Women in the Holocaust Literature) and Dr. Katalin Pécsi (Holocaust and Gender)

Screening of the documentary The Three Missing Pages by Richárd Schuster (2007)

For further information, see:

http://izraelikultura.hu/holokauszt-nemzetkozi-emleknapja-alkalmabol-noi-tulelok-hangja

January 27, 2013, 11 a.m.

Holocaust Memorial Center

(39 Páva u., 1094 Budapest)

• Welcoming remarks by Dr. János Botos, Deputy Executive Director of the Holocaust Memorial Center
• Address by Commissioner for Fundamental Rights Prof. Máté Szabó
• Message of the OUN at the occasion of the Remembrance Day, read by Mr. János Tisovszky, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Vienna
• Opening of the Remembrance Day exhibition based on the collection of the Memorial Center
• Wreath laying ceremony at the Memorial Wall of the Victims

From 10 a.m.:

continuous screening of the seven sequences of the documentary KL Auschwitz at the Wallenberg room (except for the period of the commemoration ceremony)

free admission to the exhibitions

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January 27, 2013, 11 a.m.

The March of the Living Foundation

Uránia National Movie Theatre (21 Rákóczi út, 1088 Budapest)

For further information, see:

http://www.eletmenete.hu/az-ensz-holokauszt-emleknapja-2.html
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January 27, 2013, 2.30 p.m.

The Jewish Community of Komárno

Menház Jewish Cultural and Community Center (15 Eötvösa, 94501 Komárno, Slovak Republic)

Holocaust Memorial Day and Tu Bi Svat (bilingual program)

Lectures by Dr. László Csősz, Holocaust Memorial Center (The Hungarian State and the Holocaust) and dr. Szilvia Czingel, Centropa Hungary (Survival Strategies in the Concentration Camps)

For further information, see: http://kehreg.com/

January 31, 2013, 6 pm

Zachor Foundation

Bálint Ház Jewish Community Center (16 Révay u., 1065 Budapest)

Book presentation

Lajos Erdélyi: Survival - The memoire of a photographer. The author is interviewed by the editor of the book Ferenc Katona

Excerpts from the documentary "Laló" about Lajos Erdélyi

For further information, see: http://iremember.hu/

Drawing and cartoon contest for middle-school and high-school students based on the video-testimony clips on the Hungarian (http://sfi.usc.edu/hungarian/ ) and International ( http://sfi.usc.edu/education/international/ ) portals of the USC Shoah Foundation.

For further information, see: www.emlekezem.hu

More copies of the Wallenberg Lesson DVD

Due to a cooperation between Zachor Foundation and UNIS, UN Information Services, we are able to produce an additional 250 copies of the Wallenberg Lesson, a multimedia educational kit containing two lessons (one in Hungarian with English subtitles and one in English) based on testimony clips from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive. The development of the original product was sponsored by the Foreign Ministry of Hungary. The additional copies will be distributed in UNIS countries (Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary).

Az Emlékközpont kiállításai egész nap díjmentesen látogathatók

további információ: http://www.hdke.hu/programkalauz/szakmai/emleknapok/nemzetkozi-holokauszt-emleknapi-program-pava-utcaban

Január 27.

11 óra

Élet Menete Alapítvány megemlékezése

Uránia Nemzeti Filmszínház (1088 Budapest Rákóczi út 21.)

További információ:

http://www.eletmenete.hu/az-ensz-holokauszt-emleknapja-2.html

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Január 27.

14.30

Komáromi Zsidó Hitközség

Menház Zsidó Kulturális és Közösségi Központ

(Eötvösa 15, 94501 Komárno, Szlovákia)

Holokauszt Emléknap és Tu Bi Svat

Előadások: Dr. Csősz László, Holokauszt Emlékközpont (A magyar állam és a holokauszt) és Dr. Czingel Szilvia, Centropa Hungary (Túlélési stratégiák a koncentrációs táborokban)

További információ: http://kehreg.com/

Január 31.

18 óra

Zachor Alapítvány

Bálint Zsidó Közösségi Ház (1065 Budapest Révay u. 16.)

Könyvbemutató

Erdélyi Lajos: Túlélés. Egy fotográfus visszaemlékezése.

A bemutató során a szerzővel Katona Ferenc szerkesztő beszélget, és részleteket vetítünk Jávor István Laló című portréfilmjéből.

További információ: http://www.emlekezem.hu/aktualitasok/Erdelyi_Lajos_Tuleles_bemutato.html

Rajzpályázat

A Nemzetközi Holokauszt Emléknap alkalmából a Zachor Alapítvány rajzpályázatot hirdet általános iskolai felső tagozatos és középiskolás tanulók számára a USC Soá Alapítvány magyar ( http://sfi.usc.edu/hungarian/ ) és nemzetközi (http://sfi.usc.edu/education/international/ ) portálján található, holokauszt-túlélőkkel és szemtanúkkal készített videó-klipek alapján.

További információ:

http://www.emlekezem.hu/aktualitasok/rajzpalyazat.html

A Wallenberg-lecke. Multimédiás oktatási segédanyag

A Zachor Alapítvány és az UNIS (UN Information Services) együttműködésének köszönhetően újabb 250 példány készült a USC Shoah Foundation holokauszt-túlélőkkel készült interjúira épülő kétnyelvű (magyar és angol) oktatási segédanyagból. Az eredeti anyag a Külügyminisztérium támogatásával valósult meg, az újabb példányokat az UNIS támogatásával négy országban (Ausztria, Szlovákia, Szlovénia és Magyarország) terjesztik.

Education

It might be difficult today for our youngsters to understand what happened during World War Two and to realise that it was not the private operation of a small band of criminals, but that it was rather the climax of a lengthy process. The programmes of the Holocaust Memorial Center aim at helping individuals understand these events.

We understand that the responsibility for what happened must be borne by Hungary's political leaders, its intellectuals and a significant segment of its society. It was not our sin, but we - as a nation - are obligated to confront it. There is no collective guilt here. Nor does it make any sense to talk in such terms. The descendants of people who lived 60 years ago cannot be held responsible for what happened then, but personal responsibility still exists.

We consider that it is our responsibility to remember and to say in a loud and clear voice that the tragedy that took place in 1944 and 1945 was the result of the complicity, envy, cowardice, sinfulness and evil will of thousands of people. We cannot base our study of the past on a refusal to remember and on new lies. We must, therefore, tell what happened in this country 64 years ago. We must tell future generations that, more than six decades ago, Hungarian citizens persecuted, humiliated and murdered other Hungarian citizens because of an evil and groundless ideology. This must be done so that words of intolerance and defamation will never lead to the slamming of freight car doors ever again.

Remembrance

The Hungarian government is committed to furthering education, research and remembrance of the Holocaust. The establishment and official opening of the Holocaust Memorial Centre in 2004 gave us the opportunity to own a place of remembrance and memorial. Since its existence, the centre has established a strong educational programme and closely cooperates with the institutions of the member countries of the ITF.

Research

In the summer of 1849, Bertalan Szemere, Hungary's Prime Minister, threw his political, intellectual and moral weight behind conferring equal rights on Hungarian Jewry:

"There is no religious community that has not produced heroic figures who have fought in our struggle for liberty and which has not produced victims of that struggle. However, you will find it very difficult to think of any religious community that could match the Jews in loyalty and in strenuous efforts on behalf of our national war. The declaration of equal rights is the necessary outcome of our birth as a nation. When we apply this principle to the members of the Mosaic faith, we are not only fulfilling our fundamental civic and human obligations; we are also awarding them the prize they deserve for their patriotism."