Taskforce

Zachor

Scrambling to preserve Holocaust memories

Film Screening (November 25) - The Central European University, Jewish Studies Project: Forgotten Transports: To Estonia
For Australian documentary we are looking for withnesses, who remember Auschwitz tattooist Ludwig Eisenberg
David de Rothschild calms the debate
Advancing Scholarship and Education -- International Conference on Tolerance

Acknowledgement

Editors of www.iremember.hu express their gratitude to Zsuzsa Toronyi (Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives) and János Varga researcher, historian for their valuable help in the creation of this website.

 
 
 
 

From the Editors

 

Memories. For most of us, the word conjures up an image from our childhood, our youth. The word has a pleasant and homey feel to it, and reveries of our past touch our hearts. But as we wander through our deepest memories, will it occur to us that there might be some people who would rather forget? These would be people whose hearts do not fill with satisfaction at the memories of their past, but are even horrified, agitated, or haunted by them, people who do not know how to deal with their memories and want only to be free of them, and see liberation from their irrepressible memories in forgetfulness. »

Israel 60

Memories of People Staying as Children in Zionist Homes after 1945 in Hungary

 

"... Then I got to a home for children maintained by the Joint. ... This was a Zionist home (Dror Habonim) with many children, all of whom had lost their parents. I became a madricha there, I had ten little girls to care for, who were hungry for being loved. They had noone except me and the warmth of this home. We loved these children a lot...We lived in this house like a big family ....The house protected me and provided love. That was what we all needed." (Mira Kovács) »

 

Jewish Homes in Hungary after World War II

by Attila Novák »

 

 
 

I remember, you remember - do we remember?

Gábor T. Szántó

Consciousness is remembrance. Remembrance of the individual and the society alike.»

Personal Past and History: Memoirs Anikó Kónya

... When the storyteller takes a sheet of paper and pen, he changes genres: autobiographical remembering taking the form of narration is storytelling and historical writing at the same time. Personal history »

 
 

Methodological guidance to László Kiss: Auschwitz Diary

Katalin Gyárfás

We wish to provide practical help for educators by giving ideas on how to use the book in class. »

Assignments

Andrea Szőnyi

Questions and tasks for individual study and classwork»

 

 
 

László Kiss: Auschwitz Diary

I lived in a village called Seregélyes near Székesfehérvár with my parents, my twin brother Endre (Bandi) and my sister Ági until 1944. My father, Mihály Kis had a tailor shop with his twin brother, Nándor (uncle Nándi). It was founded in 1852 by their grandfather - that is my great-grandfather. There were three children in uncle Nándor's family too: István, Zsuzsa and Hugó (Pubi). »

 
 

Magda H. László : Keepsake Album from the 20th Century

„In Paris, behind the Notre-Dame, in the middle of the Monument to the Deportations there is a flame with an inscription around it: They left and never returned. While on the exit it is written: Forgive but do not forget! Let it be so. ”»

 
 

Imre Rábai : Fractions - Confessions of a Maths Teacher

„... I am quite willing to tell what happened, because our generation is dying out. I myself am 80 years old. There are very few left who remember anything..” »

 
 

Lajos Erdélyi: Survival - Memories of a photographer

„... I think anyone who withholds or discards these experiences is really embittering the future. I know there will be no other Auschwitzes; there can't be. But inhumanity, indifference, impassiveness - these can recur. They do. Let us talk about my memories!" »

 

Ágnes Bartha: The Two of Us - Memories from Dunaföldvár, Budapest and Ravensbrück

„I always told Edit that we needed to survive so someone would speak about what had happened. And yet, when I came back, I couldn’t talk about these things. (…) It was Helmuth, who persuaded me that my memories had to be preserved. And now I know that he was right.” »

 

 

Péter Kutas: When Clouds Wept Blood... - Memories of a little boy from the Budapest ghetto

" Why do we need such writings...? We need these writing because authentic historical works focus on the extermination of the people and they never mention that eighty-year-old uncle Keller was taken by the beard and pulled all along between the benches of the Nagyfuvaros Street Synagogue."»