{"id":22046,"date":"2022-12-05T10:04:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T09:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/?p=22046"},"modified":"2022-12-05T10:04:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T09:04:44","slug":"frank-n-schubert-the-past-is-not-past-confronting-the-20th-century-in-the-hungarian-austrian-borderlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/frank-n-schubert-the-past-is-not-past-confronting-the-20th-century-in-the-hungarian-austrian-borderlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank N. Schubert: The Past is not Past:  Confronting the 20th century in the Hungarian-Austrian borderlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do we remember the past?\u00a0 What do we\u00a0<em>choose<\/em>\u00a0to remember?\u00a0 And, just as important, what has\u00a0been erased\u00a0from public memory?\u00a0 Where do we find these erasures, the &#8220;forgotten&#8221; remnants\u00a0of the wrenching events that defined the 20th century?\u00a0 The Past is not Past (A m\u00falt nem m\u00falt el) examines the ways that Hungarians and Austrians on both sides of their common border remember, distort, forget, and ignore the wrenching events that mark the generally horrible century.\u00a0 These episodes and developments include World War I, the collapse of the Habsburg empire and postwar political instability, the Treaty of Trianon, World War II and the Holocaust, removal of ethnic Germans, the Iron Curtain and the 1956 revolution, the end of Soviet rule, and the post-1989 migration crisis.\u00a0 Based on fifteen years of travel throughout the borderlands from the author\u2019s home in Gy\u0151r, the largest city in the region, as well as on published sources and conversations with residents, the book&#8211;part travelguide, part social history, and part memoir\u2014addresses these questions.\u00a0 Fifteen maps and more than 140 illustrations help readers find the answers.<\/p>\n<p>The book is available for purchase at the Holocaust Memorial Centre ticket office. For more information, please contact: <a href=\"mailto:kommunikacio@hdke.hu\">kommunikacio@hdke.hu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do we remember the past?\u00a0 What do we\u00a0choose\u00a0to remember?\u00a0 And, just as important, what has\u00a0been erased\u00a0from public memory?\u00a0 Where do we find these erasures, the &#8220;forgotten&#8221; remnants\u00a0of the wrenching events that defined the 20th century?\u00a0 The Past is not Past (A m\u00falt nem m\u00falt el) examines the ways that Hungarians and Austrians on both<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22047,"href":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22046\/revisions\/22047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}