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19 Jan

Spectacular City – The artistic speculum of Jewish Central Europe

The Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest cordially invites you to the opening ceremony of the temporary exhibition: Spectacular City – The artistic speculum of Jewish Central Europe.   Location: Budapest, Páva utca 39. – gallery of the synagogue Date: 29 January 2023 at 17 p.m. If you wish to participate, please fill in the Google

18 Jan

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

The Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest cordially invites you to the commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day beginning at 11:00 on Friday, January 27, 2023. In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated 27 January as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this day in 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest and most notorious Nazi death camp,

05 Dec

Frank N. Schubert: The Past is not Past: Confronting the 20th century in the Hungarian-Austrian borderlands

How do we remember the past?  What do we choose to remember?  And, just as important, what has been erased from public memory?  Where do we find these erasures, the “forgotten” remnants of the wrenching events that defined the 20th century?  The Past is not Past (A múlt nem múlt el) examines the ways that Hungarians and Austrians on both

28 Nov

The Holocaust Memorial Center will be closed from 12 December to 23 January 2023.

Dear Visitors, The Holocaust Memorial Centre’s permanent and temporary exhibitions will be open for the last time on 11 December this year. We will be closed from 12 December 2022 to 23 January 2023. From 24 January, we welcome all visitors again. Accordingly, the permanent exhibition, the synagogue, the temporary exhibition will not be open

10 Nov

Patrick Desbois: In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets

The Holocaust Documentation Center and Memorial Collection Public Foundation and Yahad in Unum cordially invite you to the book presentation and the following panel discussion of Patrick Desbois: In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets Date: 24 November 2022 18:00 hrs Location: 1094 Budapest, Páva utca 39, Synagogue Due to the

07 Nov
Fotó: Szántó Endre

Reflections on Images of the Holocaust in Central and Eastern Europe

The Holocaust Memorial Centre cordially invites you to the international conference:   Reflections on Images of the Holocaust in Central and Eastern Europe December 7, 2022 Wednesday: 9:15 AM – 4:00 PM (time is Central European Time) Photographs have an immediate emotional impact and can be seen as windows into past realities. They are important

19 Oct
A Joint nemzetközi segélyszervezet egyik fővárosi ingyenkonyhája előtt várakozók 1946-ban – Fotó: Kálmán Béla / Holokauszt Emlékközpont (2011.377.1)

“Coming back – coming home? The emigration dilemmas of Hungarian Jews, 1945-1949″

The Holocaust Memorial Centre cordially invites you to the international conference: “Coming back – coming home? The emigration dilemmas of Hungarian Jews, 1945-1949″ October 27, 2022 Thursday: 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM In 1945, the Nazi concentration camps were liberated. The survivors had to decide what course to set their lives on. After the end

03 Oct

Change of opening hours

Change of opening hours! We would like to inform our visitors that the opening hours of the Holocaust Memorial Center is the following from the 10th October. Monday: Closed Tuesday – Friday: 10 am – 4 am (Ticket office closes at 3 pm) Saturday – Sunday: 10 am – 5 pm (ticket office closes at

02 Jun

Remembering the Holocaust in the 21st Century: – Digital Pathways to Remembrance – Conference

The Foundation for the Szeged Synagogue, the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest (HDKE), and the Austrian Cultural Forum, in cooperation with the Szeged and Novi Sad Jewish Communities, will stage a two-day a memorial event and conference on Holocaust research titled Remembering the Holocaust in the 21st Century: Digital Pathways to Remembrance on 26-27 June,

10 Mar

‘Holocaust by Bullets’ seminar

Following our fifth very successful seminar in general, and the first one at Level II in 2021, the Budapest Holocaust Memorial Center together with the Yahad-In Unum research organization from France is organizing its 6th ‘Holocaust by Bullets’ seminar for  teachers at LEVEL I in Budapest from 22 to 24 September 2022. Yahad-In Unum (“Together