{"id":20329,"date":"2012-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.hdke.hu\/cruelty-and-humanity-in-the-months-of-massacre\/"},"modified":"2012-12-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T23:00:00","slug":"cruelty-and-humanity-in-the-months-of-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/cruelty-and-humanity-in-the-months-of-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruelty and humanity in the months of massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On December 1, 2012<\/strong>, the fifth Memorial Day of forced laborers coerced to erecte fortifications in the Austrian \u2013 Hungarian border area during the winter of 1944 \u2013 45 was observed in Balf. The National Literary and Historical Memorial Site in Balf upholds the memory of victims of the forced labor camps in the region of Sopron, among them outstanding personalities, such as Antal Szerb, G\u00e1bor Hal\u00e1sz and Gy\u00f6rgy S\u00e1rk\u00f6zi.<\/p>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><a href=\"\/files\/image\/Balf_2012_2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Megeml\u00e9kez\u00e9s \u00e9s koszor\u00faz\u00e1s az egykori t\u00f6megs\u00edrok helysz\u00edn\u00e9n\" src=\"\/files\/image\/Balf_2012_2.jpg\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 166px; float: right; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; margin: 5px 7px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the first part of the program, at the memorial erected on the site of mass graves, Prof. Dr. Szabolcs Szita has evoked the events that took place in the area of western Hungary, in Sopron, Balf, K\u0151szeg and Rohonc\/Rechnitz during the winter of 1944-45. At the occasion, flowers of commemoration were laid by Dr. Istv\u00e1n Simon, deputy mayor of Sopron, Dr. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Varga, vice-dean of the Pedagogical Faculty of University of Western Hungary, Gy\u00f6rgy Frisch, chairman of the National Association of Persecuted by Nazism, Gy\u00f6rgy Sessler, chairman of the National Association of Forced Laborers, Dr. J\u00e1nos Botos, deputy director of the Holocaust Memorial Center and Dr. Istv\u00e1n Nuber, educational advisor of the Holocaust Memorial Center.<\/p>\n<p>At the subsequent program in the J\u00f3zsef Attila Culture Club, Dr. J\u00e1nos Botos greeted the participants of the commemoration titled \u201cDestruction through Labor: Months of Mass-Murder\u201d. Announcement of results and award giving ceremony of the students\u2019 essay competition represented the central element of the program. The authors of the very best essays, out of the 65 nominated ones, received the acknowledgements of the Holocaust Memorial Center and the special awards of the town of Sopron.<\/p>\n<p>The afternoon section of the program, devoted to rescue activities, bore the title \u201cVictory of Humanity\u201d. Sections of a documentary about humanitarian activity by the Austrian Maria Mauz and her mother were screened, followed by presentations of historians Engelbert Kremshofer from Graz and Harald Strassl from Eisenstadt. The program was closed by handing out memorial plaques to Austrian families Kremshofer, a Trummer and Lederer, that rescued Jews during the Shoah.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Organizers of the Memorial Day<\/strong><\/u>:<\/p>\n<p>Holocaust Memorial Center<\/p>\n<p>University of West Hungary \u2013 Institute for Teachers Education<\/p>\n<p>National Association of Forced Laborers<\/p>\n<p>Committee of Persecuted by Nazism<\/p>\n<p>Eml\u00e9kez\u00e9s 1944 \u2013 2004 Public Foundation<\/p>\n<p>Holocaust Institution Budapest<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supporting Partners<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zukunftsfonds der Republik \u00d6sterreich<\/p>\n<p>Austrian Cultural Forum, Budapest<\/p>\n<p>Simon Wiesenthal Educational Center, Wien<\/p>\n<p>BMI Mauthausen Archiv, Wien<\/p>\n<p>Verein R. E. F. U. G. I. U. S. \u2013 Rechnitzer Fl\u00fcchlings- und Gedenkinitiative<\/p>\n<p>Jewish Community of Sopron<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 1, 2012, the fifth Memorial Day of forced laborers coerced to erecte fortifications in the Austrian \u2013 Hungarian border area during the winter of 1944 \u2013 45 was observed in Balf. 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