The Holocaust Memorial Center cordially invites you to the
Memorials, Groups, Functions
International conference – Holocaust Memorial Centre, Budapest – 17‒18 September 2025.

Modernity has brought the secularisation of memory culture, and the 20th century has given rise to a new type of memorial.

Memory is linked to a group, but also to a place. The modern national memorials of the 19th century built on and reinterpreted the pages of religious/denominational and dynastic memory. The devastation of the world wars, the absence of mourning for relatives who had died far away, the inaccessibility of their graves, gave rise to new types of memorials. The unresolved losses of displacement and genocide also manifested themselves in memorials. This is all the more true of the destruction of the Holocaust and the creation of memorial sites. The individual can remember as a member of the group, through the group’s discourses and communal rituals. Memorial sites are surrounded by heteroglossia, and may be associated with competing group memories. The importance of a memorial site in a group strategy may vary, and its necessity may be debated.

Our conference provides a forum for the analytical presentation of memorial sites and the forms of remembrance associated with them, regardless of whether they are still in use today or in need of preservation.

Date
17-18 September, 2025.

Location
1094 Budapest, Páva utca 39.

The conference will be held in English with Hungarian interpretation.

Please RVSP by 16 September, 2025

Registration
https://bit.ly/memorials-groups-functions

Memorials, Groups, Functions – pragramme
International conference – Holocaust Memorial Centre,
Budapest – 17‒18 September 2025.

Wednesday, September 17

8:45 – 9:15     Registration
9:15 – 9:30     Welcome speeches:

Andor Grósz, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Holocaust Documentation Center and Memorial Collection Public Foundation
Vince Szalay-Bobrovniczky, Deputy Secretary of State for Civil and Social Relations of the Prime Minister

PLENARY PRESENTATION – Chair: András Zima
9:30 – 10:00   Gilly Carr: The IHRA Charter for Safeguarding Sites: preserving Holocaust sites in the context of the challenges of the 21^st century
10:00 – 10:15 Discussion
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee break

First section – Chair: András Lénárt
10:30– 10:50  Hanna Lessing: A look at the changing nature of remembrance
10:50 – 11:10 Ádám Kerpel-Fronius: The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and its place in a diverse memorial landscape
11:10 – 11:30  Ljiljana Radonic: The Era of Memorial Museums and Traveling Memorialization Trends
11:30 – 11:50  Discussion
11:50 – 13:00 Lunch break

Second section – Chair: Levente Olosz
13:00 – 13:20 Matej Beranek: Memorials in Slovakia – history and present
13:20 – 13:40    László Csősz: The fortress of Komárom as a memorial site in the Hungarian collective memory
13:40 – 14:00 Michal Brandl: Holocaust between global and local: Holocaust memorialization in Croatia
14:00 – 14:20 Discussion
14:20 – 14:45 Coffee break

Third section – Chair: Adél Nagy
14:45 – 15:05 Éva Kovács: Fluid and Forgotten Knowledge of the Roma Genocide. The Memoryscape of the Grábler Lake
15:05 – 15:25 Krinka Vidaković: Memorialization Today: A Case Study of “Staro Sajmište”
15:25 – 15:45 Milovan Pisarri: A Winding Path to Memorialization: The Case of the Bor Concentration Camp
15:45 – 16:10 Discussion
16:10   Closing remarks

Thursday, September 18

9:40 – 10:00   Registration
10:00 – 10:05 Welcome speech

 Fourth section – Chair: István Ádám Pál
10:05 – 10:25 Tanja Tuleković: Memorial sites – places of education
10:25 – 10:45 Ladislav Trajer: Preserving Jewish cemeteries in Serbia
10:45 – 11:05 László Mód: Transformation of War Landscape to Memorial Landscape. Examples from the Italian-Slovenian Borderland
11:05 – 11:30  Discussion
11::30 – 12:00 Coffee break

Fifth section – Chair: László Csősz
12:00 – 12:20 Norbert Glässer – András Zima: Places preserved by their multivocality
12:20 – 12:40 Nicolae Dragusin: Before and After 1989/1991. Memorializations of the Holocaust in former Communist States
12:40 – 13:00 Discussion
13:30 – 13:35 Closing remarks: András Zima
13::35 – 14:35 Lunch

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