Events - June 21
8:00
8:00-9:00
(HU) Zsófi Mautner cooks Jewish specialties while Róbert Alföldi reads out old-time recipes.
9:00
(HU) Commemoration with talks by Péter Agárdi, university lecturer (Itt Élünk [We Live Here] Association), Eszter Csepregi Gombócz, Jewish studies researcher. The We Live Here Association and three survivors erect a commemorative plaque.
10:00
Király Street 42. Piroska Kertész’s story read by Tünde Majsai Nyilas
Paulay Ede Street 43. Júlia Deme’s story read by Ildikó Tornyi
Zichy Jenő Street 41. Mrs. László Somorjai’s story read by Éva Igó
Eötvös Street 2. Dr. Márta Bárdos’s story read by Zsuzsa Járó
Király Street 54. László Hoffmann’s story read by Gábor Nagypál
Meeting point at the first location. Stories concerning these former yellow-star houses are read aloud by actors. The walk lasts approximately one hour.
Guided walk on the 1944 history of the 8th district: the yellow-star houses, production of fake protection documents, and Jewish resistance on Népszínház Street. Organized by the Jakab Gláser Memorial Foundation.
Registration required: lelkes.szilvia@telekiter.com
Guided walk of lesser-known prayer houses in Budapest's historical Jewish quarter, including a private Orthodox synagogue, the cab drivers' synagogue, and finishing at the progressive Mózes House. Organized by the “Hosszúlépés. Járunk?” group.
Registration required: www.hosszulepes.org/events/rejtett-zsinagogak/
10:00 (HU) Commemoration and erection of commemorative plaque. Recollections of a former resident of the house interpreted by actor Bea Melkvi, with the participation of András Dés.
10:30 (HU) Film screening: (1) “Fény-képek gyermekeinknek” [Photographs for our Children] and (2) Sárga csillagos kocsmák [Yellow-Star Bars], film student Máté Konkol’s film about former yellow-star buildings which now house nightspots.
(HU) Literary commemoration with Márta Mérnyei.
(HU) Telling family stories. A few words about Gedeon Richter who hid in the basement of this house. Poem by Miklós Radnóti.
(HU) Short reading of a text by István Örkény.
(HU) Nóra Doleschall plays the flute, plus reading of a short literary text.
(HU) Tibor Szirtes shares his childhood memories from 1944.
(HU) Láng téka bookshop: reading by Endre Kukorelly and Gábor Németh.
(HU) Writer Róbert Gál, Tamás Masa and Anita (Sabbathsong klezmer band). Joint commemoration.
The Portuguese Embassy holds a short commemoration in front of the house which was under Portuguese protection in 1944, and where a commemorative plaque remembers the Portuguese diplomats Sampaio Garrido and Teixeira Branquinho who saved lives in Hungary.
10:30
Short commemoration in front of the yellow-star house memorial plaque at the Ministry of Justice. On behalf of the Turkish Embassy, Mr. Caglar Fahri Cakiralp, First Counsellor, Chargé d’Affaires a.i., and the Ministry of Justice will be represented by Dr. Barnabás Hajós, Deputy Chief of the Minister’s Cabinet.
11:00
(HU) Cookbook for survival: Remembering around the shared table. Five Jewish women starve in the Lichtenwörth camp in 1944, and keep their spirits up by describing recipes and meals from home. Theatrical gastro-performance by Gólem Theater based on the book of these recipes. Organized with the Gólem Theater. Everyone is welcome to cook and share food.
(HU) Introduction by Vera Faragó
Gyula Illyés poem
Guitar solo by György Szentkirályi (Sabbath Song ensemble)
Extract from the recollections of philosopher Mihály Vajda, who lived in a yellow-star house on the neighboring Nádor Street.
US Embassy - V. Szabadság Square 12.
Guided walk led by US Chargé d’Affaires M. André Goodfriend and U.S. Embassy staff commemorating the four former yellow-star houses in the vicinity of the U.S. Embassy: Aulich street 3. and 5., Hold street 6 and Perczel Mór street 4., featuring flautist, Lisa Bost, performing a piece by Marin Marais, Les Folies d'Espagne.
(HU) Exhibition of documents concerning the house’s history. What was life like in the yellow-star house? The basement air-raid shelter. Erection of commemorative plaque.
(HU) Alexandra Bookshop, Alexandra Press, Európa Press, Cartaphilus Press: literary guided walk with literary historian and journalist György Vári. Itinerary: Károly Boulevard 3/c - Dohány Street 10. - Király Street 76. - Dob Street 15. - Síp Street 12. - Kazinczy Street 41. - Révay Street 16.
(HU) Reading excerpts from family diaries.
(HU) Dr. Iván Kende, Holocaust survivor, shares his memories.
Marcsi Takács reads a poem and sings.
Janka Homola reads a poem.
Dániel Németh presents the Kőbánya synagogue.
Lídia Szluka sings an opera aria.
(HU) The resistance of “Little Warsaw.”
(HU) Family and former residents of Nepszinhaz street 59 reflect on the events of October 1944, read out the names of the victims of the massacre in this yellow-star house, as well as an excerpt from Nick Barlay's book Scattered Ghosts.
(HU) Commemoration organized by the descendants of Ármin Erdős, Szidónia Egri and their daughter Veronika Erdős, who lived in the house in the summer of 1944.
(HU) Németvölgyi second-hand bookshop: reading by Tibor Babiczky, András Imreh and Júlia Lázár.
(HU) Remembering the Weinberger and Delikát families, who lived in this house until 1944.
(HU) A short memorial performance at the house, with the "Csütörtök társulat" [Thursday Society]. Steps in Time. Director: Nóra Hidvégi. Dramatology: Judit Garai. Voice: Enikő Záhonyi. Synthesis: Júlia Márkus. Actor: Vera Szabó. Short film: Sára Czira, Noémi Mehrli.
(HU) Reading aloud the decree which established the yellow-star houses, and the names of former residents. Telling family stories. Excerpt from Anne Frank’s diary. With singer Éva Bodrogi.
11:30
(HU) Remembering the Weinberger and Datner families, reading aloud post-cards.
12:00
(HU) Dr. Éva Nádor: a short talk on the yellow-star houses project. Talk by a former resident of the house, György Korda. Opera singer Hajnal Székelyhidi performs “Szól a kakas már.” Excerpt from Sándor Márai’s Diary, 1943–44. Vera Surányi, “Never forget,” performed by actor Viktória Haik. Cantor Zoltán Belz-Szilágyi recites Kaddish.
13:00
(HU) Chamber choir in the stairwell, stories from former residents, planting a locust tree, erecting a commemorative plaque. Organized by Krétakör [Chalk Circle]. Further details here: https://www.facebook.com/Kretakor
13:30
Cirko-Gejzír Cinema
1055 Budapest, Balassi Bálint Street 15-17.
(1) 269 1915 www.cirkofilm.hu
10 documentary films at Cirko-Gejzír Cinema about the persecution of the Jews, the yellow-star houses, ghettoization, going into hiding, work camps and death camps, told via the stories of survivors and eye-witnesses. Films are in Hungarian; five have English or German subtitles. Continuous screening from 13:30 until 10 pm, in three rooms. FREE.
13:30 – 20:00 Prior to every film, we are screening a 1-minute silent film on the forced march of Jews through the streets of Budapest on October 17, 1944.
Following the Arrow Cross takeover of power on October 15, reports spread of armed resistance on Népszínház Street, and which could only be put down after some days, with German assistance. As a deterrent, the Arrow Cross rounded up dozens of people from nearby yellow-star houses on Tisza Kálmán (today Pope John Paul II) Square, and herded them to the Városi Theater. The group consisted mostly of women, elderly people and children, and after being forced to show ID documents and robbed, they then had to spend the night at the Tattersaal racing track. Over the coming days, they were force-marched to various points across the city. Numerous photographs and one film remain documenting this public humiliation campaign.
13:30 They Were Neighbors, Zsuzsanna Varga, 2005, 62 minutes, EN subtitles
Ghetto, Óbuda brick factory, railway station, mass grave: this is what the neighbors of Hungarian Jews remember. What did they do, and what could they have done? What did they see, and what did they want to see of the events surrounding them during the final days of WWII?
14:00 Photographs for our Children, András Surányi, Sándor Simó and Edit Kőszegi, 1988, 75 minutes, EN subtitles
Budapest Jews and survivors tell their personal stories with family photos, and letters and documents from the camps. Elderly people remember forced labor, the yellow-star decree, forced relocation into yellow-star houses, the Arrow Cross terror, plundering of property, and ghettoization.
15:00 (HU) Eva A5116, László Nádasy, 1963, 87 minutes
Éva is a Polish medical student. She travels to Hungary for the first time in her life to find her parents, family and relatives, 16 years after they were liberated from Auschwitz. Her only help in finding them is the tattoo on her arm: A5116. The letter “A” represents Hungary, while the number 5116 refers to a town in southern Hungary. Fathers, mothers, relatives and neighbors recognize the number…
15:30 (HU) The Kasztner Train: Gyula Radó, 2006, 150 minutes
In 1944, Rezső Kasztner rescued almost 1,700 Hungarian and Polish Jews from certain destruction. In Israel, he was declared a traitor and Nazi collaborator, tried, and shot in front of his apartment in 1957.
16:45 The Righteous, András Sipos, 1993, 64 minutes, EN subtitles
Film presenting the stories and deeds of a few heroic individuals: Tibor Almásy, Jenő Thassy, the Homonnay family and others who risked their own lives to save those of their Jewish compatriots in World War II: the Righteous.
18:00 (DE) Farewell, András Sipos, 1992, 45 minutes, DE subtitles
In October 1990, 200 elderly Hungarian Jewish women visit Allendorf, Germany. Allendorf was part of the Buchenwald concentration camp. They bring with them memories from 45 years ago, and former prisoners talk about the brutality of the SS and gendarmes, and the apathy of the Hungarians: murdered relatives, the yellow-star houses and the ghetto, deportations and torture in the concentration camps. The paradox of the encounter: while the women detail their terrible memories, a jolly teenage girl pops up, singing and telling jokes, and who, almost half a century ago, had walked from the camp to the ordnance factory.
18:30 (HU) One Year, András Sipos, 2014, 78 minutes
On the 70th anniversary of the German occupation, 12 former classmates from the Toldy school remember the tragic events. Viewing history from the perspective of a child brings a particularly unique perspective: hiding under a false name, a long summer spent with other people’s grandparents in the countryside. Some were in yellow-star houses, others in the ghetto. One lost both his hands in the bombings, others witness executions. With the participation of György Kézdy, Rudolf Ungváry, János Kende and József Székely.
19:00 (HU) It Happened to People 1919-1944, Tamás Fehéri, 1999, 88 minutes
Using archive film and newsreels, the film presents the history of Hungarian antisemitism from 1919 to 1944, from the anti-Jewish laws to the gas chambers.
20:00 Traveling Together, Gyula Gazdag, 1984, 75 minutes, EN subtitles
Four busloads of middle-aged people sign up for the Coopturist offer: traveling to a former concentration camp. The travellers have been here before, although of course not on a journey organized by Coopturist, but by Hungarian Interior Ministry Secretary of State Endre László. As they approach Auschwitz, they start to remember: the ghetto in Hatvan, the cattle wagons, the barracks, the head shaving, Mengele, the gas chambers, and the smoking crematoria chimneys. With thanks to the film’s director for his consent.
14:00
(HU) Jewish religious texts found in the house. Honoring the rescuers. Lighting candles to the victims who were forced to live in the house.
In Medias Brass Quintet concert. Organized by the Liszt Academy.
(HU) Reading of stories from the house and the June 1944 decree that established the yellow-star houses. Talk: “ Milestones and Art of Miklós Radnóti’s Life on Pozsonyi Road.” Reading of a Radnóti poem and Imre Kertész, “Holocaust Lessons for the Future,” plus personal reflections from the organizers.
14:30
(HU) Dance improvisation to the Yiddish song “Rozhinkes min Mandin,” performed by Anna Réti, Zsuzsanna Simányi and Kristóf Darvas. Éva Krausz, a resident, shares her memories of the house.
(HU) Writer Róbert Gál, Tamás Masa and Anita (Sabbathsong klezmer band). Joint commemoration.
(HU) A visitor from far away remembers his former classmate.
Violinist Ernő Kállai performs Ernest Bloch’s work “Nigun.”
15:00
Dohány Street 47. Mrs. György Uhrman (born Katalin Zinger)’s story read by Barbara Hegedűs
Barcsay Street 11./1 Ágnes Lengyel’s story read by Melitta Pallagi, András Szász’s story read by György Sipos, Mrs. András Apostol (Zsuzsanna Róth)’s story read by Melitta Pallagi
István Road 20. Mrs. István Lóránt’s story read by Kata Péter
Damjanich Street 49. Éva Kende’s story read by Éva Bata
Meeting point at the first location. Stories concerning these former yellow-star houses are read aloud by actors. The walk lasts approximately one hour.
(HU) Reading by Ferenc Kőszeg and Pál Závada, with flute performance by Anita Baglyas.
(HU) Lighting a candle for the children: Péter Gerendás, D. Géza Hegedűs, Judit Havas and film director Gyula Radó remember those who lived in the Budapest yellow-star houses. Editor: Judit Havas.
(HU) Historical overview, reading from Lajos Nagy’s “Basement Diary”, one minute’s silence in memory of the victims.
(HU) Writers’ Bookshop: Mónika Mesterházi interprets a text by Péter Esterházy, plus reading by Mónika Mesterházi and Mátyás Varga.
(HU) Commemoration organized by Katalin Weiler.
(HU) Literary selection and Hungarian folk songs. “Suitcase Exhibition” of photographs and documents from the houses.
15:00 (HU) Commemoration led by Anna Gábor. Esther Lukács on flute, Judit Rozsnyai on violin, Júlia Csillag sings.
18:00 The music of the avant-garde: the voices of commemoration. Performance of “Musik der Avantgarde”, German avant-garde music from the Berlin Jewish Museum’s permanent collection.
19:00(HU) Talk by Hedvig Turai, “Are we allowed to play with the yellow star? The Holocaust and play.” Organized by the Studio of Young Artists’ Association.
(HU) Literary selection and Hungarian folk songs. “Suitcase Exhibition” of photographs and documents from the houses.
(HU) Musical commemoration: violin solo and the song “Szól a kakas már”, conversation and cakes.
(HU) Exhibition of historical documents.
15:30
(HU) Short history of the creation of the yellow-star houses in 1944. A few words on the aims of OSA Archivum’s “Yellow-Star Houses” project. Thoughts on the persecution of the Jews and one of the victims, former resident and architect of the house, Marcell Komor. With the Pro Fun choir led by Katalin Énekes.
Concert: Yiddish and Ladino songs of the ghettos: from Cordoba to a Ukrainian shtetl, from Casablanca to Budapest. Organized by Anastasia Chukovskaya and Alexey Zelensky.
(HU) Short introduction and personal memories. Reading of text by György Konrád.
(HU) Reading, lighting candles and placing flowers in memory of the victims.
(HU) Actor Andrea Takáts reads stories from the Facebook group “The Holocaust and my Family.” Talk by Gábor Deák (MAZSIKE Hungarian Jewish Cultural Association): “What did the international ghetto mean to the Jews?” With the participation of the Lauder Javne Music School.
(HU) István Béki reads aloud his poems.
(HU) Excerpts from the diary of Dr. Endre Szántó, written while on forced labor service.
16:00
(HU) Exhibition on the Holocaust in Budapest: lectures, documentary film screenings, excerpts from previously classified documents.
(DE, HU) "Four Fates." The history of four Stolperstein stones in Germany: four Südwestfunk Radio programs in Hungarian and German.
Three short films on Gunter Demnig’s public sculptures, the Stolptersteine: small, cobblestone-sized memorials for an individual victim of Nazism, embedded in the pavement.
The four Stolperstein on Ráday Street: photographs and biographies.
“Understanding the past.” Tableaux on the victims of National Socialism.
Cleaning the Ráday Street Stolperstein stones the staff of the Goethe Institut and their guests.
17:00 - Ráday Street 25.: Parson Gábor Szabon cleans the Stolperstein laid in memory of Oszkár Vidor.
17:15 - Ráday Street 54.: Jutta Gehrig, director of the Goethe Institute in Budapest, cleans the Stolperstein laid in memory of Sándor Szinai.
17:30 - Ráday Street 31/b: László Böröcz, director of the 2B Gallery, cleans the Stolperstein laid in memory of Imre Pollák.
17:45 - Ráday Street 5.: young people clean the Stolperstein laid in memory of Béla Rónai.
(HU) Two-hour walking tour of 21 sites, with documents and literary memorials, lighting candles. Meeting point: Szent István boulevard.
(HU) Guided walk with events in front of 5 houses, in the following order:
Vasvári Pál Street 8.
Performance by violinist Mátyás Büki
Szilárd Lipcsei opens the Brody Art Yard exhibition of works by Polish-Jewish American painter Diane Sophrine, who lived at this address for over 10 years. The exhibition refers to lost homes, and the universal tragedy of the Holocaust.
Unveiling of a commemorative plaque at the front gate.
Actor Bernadett Szemerédi reads a poem by Miklós Radnóti.
Vasvári Pál Street 9.
Actor Léda Meyei reads aloud from a work by Lajos Kassák.
Residents of Vasvári Pál Street 9 remember former residents of the house.
Unveiling of a commemorative plaque at the front gate.
Vasvári Pál Street 5.
Actor Bernadett Szemerédi reads a poem by István Vas.
Vasvári Pál Street 1.
Half a minute’s silence remembering the victims.
Vasvári Pál Street 3.
Unveiling of a commemorative plaque.
Excerpts from András Dávid’s film “A kitörölt memória” [Deleted Memory], screened in the Nappali café.
Beaux Jaxon and friends perform in front of the Nappali café.
(HU) Short reading of a text by István Örkény.
(HU) The Road to Auschwitz
Selection of decrees and primary sources on the persecution of the Hungarian Jews.
16:00 (HU) In the courtyard, Eszter Gombocz opens the travelling exhibition on “Jewish schools in Buda and Óbuda 1920-1949”.
16:30 (HU) Exhibition, discussion citing the events of 1944, conversation with a Holocaust survivor.
Open house.
(HU) Writers’ Bookshop: Reading by Zoltán Halasi, Ferenc Kőszeg and Pál Závada, flute performance by Anita Baglyas.
(HU) Exhibition by tranzit.hu on “Taboos,” and screening of interviews on Jewish identity. Reading aloud the names of former residents of the house, remembering the victims. Organized by tranzit.hu.
(HU) Reading of a One-minute Story by István Örkény and Ludvik Askenazy’s novella “The Egg.” Lighting Candles.
(HU) Remembering the former residents of the house, reading aloud diary excerpts.
(HU) Judit Tauszig’s memories of the yellow-star house, placing flowers at the building.
(HU) Tordai second-hand bookshop: Reading by Noémi Kiss and István Vörös.
(HU) Exhibition in the courtyard of documents on the yellow-star houses and the history of this house. Reading by poet and Benedictine monk Mátyás Varga. With cellists of the Opera House, Ildikó Rönkös and Dénes Karasszon.
(HU) Fókusz Bookshop: Screening of archival documentary films.
(HU) “Here lived Éva Winter, who lived 22 years,” commemoration with former and current residents of the house.
(HU) Welcome, presentation of the history of the house. Reading a selection of recollections. Short musical performance and lighting candles. One minute’s silence or prayer.
(HU) Reading of the yellow-star houses decree, musical performance and a poem. Please bring a stone or a flower!
(HU) Commemoration.
(HU) Reading aloud survivors’ testimonies.
(HU) Guided walk. Erecting a commemorative plaque at the house.
(HU) Exhibition of historical documents at the Bábuska restaurant. Public commemoration on the street, reading of Miklós Radnóti’s “Fourth eclogue” in front of the former yellow-star house.
(HU) Reading by former residents and music. Organized by the ÓVÁS! Association.
Representatives of the Tom Lantos Institute convey a personal message at the house where Tom Lantos was born.
(HU) Actor Andrea Takáts reads stories from the Facebook group “The Holocaust and my Family.” Talk by Gábor Deák (MAZSIKE Hungarian Jewish Cultural Association): “What did the international ghetto mean to the Jews?” With the participation of the Lauder Javne Music School.
16:30
(HU) Literary readings.
(HU) Commemoration with poet and literary critic Gábor Schein and the residents of the house. Erecting a memorial plaque and reading the names of the 1944 residents. With Áron Petrus-Bölöni on cello.
(HU) Actor András Bálint remembers the poet Miklós Radnóti. Gábor Deák (MAZSIKE Hungarian Jewish Cultural Association) talks about Hungarian Jewish poets in the Holocaust. With Bach variations on the saxophone performed by János Vázsonyi.
17:00
(HU) Guided walk of the most important sites commemorating the rescue work of the diplomats Giorgio Perlasca (Italy), Angelo Rotta and Gennaro Verolino (Vatican), Henryk Slawik (Poland), Sampaio Garrido and Teixeira Branquinho (Portugal), Angel Sanz-Briz (Spain), Raoul Wallenberg (Sweden), Carl Lutz and Friedrich Born (Switzerland), and their Hungarian and foreign colleagues. Walk compiled by historian László Csősz (Holocaust Memorial Center) and led by cultural anthropologist Szilvia Czingler.
Participation free, registration required: www.bupap.hu/hu/embermento-diplomatakbudapesten
The walk lasts approximately two hours. Organized with the participation of the Embassies of Italy, the Vatican, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
(HU) Reading of Piroska’s letter. Piroska lived with her parents and daugher in the yellow-star house at Bank Street 6, and her December 1945 letter describes what happened to her family during the Holocaust.
Vilmos Gryllus concert of Yiddish folks songs translated by Sándor Kányádi.
(HU) Hanna Berkics reads a work by István Örkény.
(HU) Fókusz Bookshop: Szabolcs Várady reads a Zsófia Balla poem, reading by Balázs Györe, István Kemény, Andrea Tompa and Szabolcs Várady.
(HU) Stories about the Bérci family who moved into the house in 1938.
17:00 (HU) Erecting a commemorative plaque, poetry reading, individual recollections, musical performance and home-made cakes.
18:00 (HU) Walk to the Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Plaque at the corner of Pozsonyi road and Raoul Wallenberg street), lighting candles. Itinerary: Hegedűs Gyula street – Balzac street – Pozsonyi road.
(HU) “Radnóti in prose” – excerpts from András Bálint’s performance with Bach variations on the saxophone by János Vázsonyi.
(HU) Speech by Urs Brönnimann, Chargé d'Affaires at the Swiss Embassy in Hungary. A few words on the architecture of this former yellow-star house. Talk: “Persecution of the Jews and the role of yellow-star houses in World War II.” Recollections of a Holocaust survivor. Actor Bea Melkvi reads a Radnóti poem. Film projection and music.
Wallenberg Memorial Concert. First performed at the Liszt Academy on June 19, 1946. Concert and readings commemorating the work of Raoul Wallenberg and colleagues.
17:30
(HU) Literary reading.
(HU) Exhibition of historical documents. Reading from a former resident’s diary by silversmith Margit Teván.
(HU) Actor D. Géza Hegedűs reads from Ernő Szép's book “The Smell of Humans.” With Dániel Kardos on guitar.
18:00
(HU) Guided walk with family histories and selection from literary works. Itinerary: Pozsonyi road 36. > Szent István park 14. > Hollán Ernő street 48. > Szent István park 22. > Hollán Ernő street 47. > Hollán Ernő street 49. > Hollán Ernő street 51. > Hollán Ernő street 50. > Szent István park 23. > Szent István park 25. > Pozsonyi road 40.
(HU) Remembering the forced moving in together. Words: Ferenc Kőszeg, András Mink, Zsolt Zádori. Music: István Babindák on clarinet. Sound: Toldi Club. Organized by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee.
(HU) Conversation with former residents, music, and cakes made by Ráhel Raj.
18:00 (HU) “Yellow-star House and ÁVH Building” – documents from the 1935-1956 history of the house including its secret police past, by Borbála Kriza. Erecting a commemorative plaque.
18:30 Klezmer Chaverim, with Egon Balázs on cello and Ádám Patrik on guitar.
19:00 (HU) Documentary film screening: “They Were Neighbors,” Zsuzsanna Varga, 2005, 65 minutes, EN subtitles
(HU) Film projection, conversation, lighting candles, photo exhibition, and matzo.
(HU) Hajnalka Tarr, the acb Gallery and the Living Memorial group hold an open discussion and commemoration: art and trauma, Holocaust memorials and their reception in Germany, personal stories, the history of the house. Can art influence society, and if so, how?
(HU) Media artist Péter Forgács reads out the Jewish decrees.
Professor of history Dr. István Diószegi on the Hungarian Holocaust.
János Korényi performs on a 2000-year-old Armenian wind instrument.
János Másik performs on the pandoneon.
Edifying Lives in 1944
(HU) Three Chance Encounters. The Capa Center’s stories on how people’s fates met after the Holocaust: (1) Károly Kincses presents the Magdolna Kolta collection; (2) Pál Kis, the photographer of Király Street; (3) film on Raoul Wallenberg by students of the Lauder Javne Community School.
(HU, ES) Exhibition commemorating Spanish diplomat Ángel Sanz Briz who saved thousands of lives during the Holocaust in Budapest, and was awarded the honorific “Righteous Among the Nations.”
Film screening 18:00 El Ángel de Budapest(Luis Oliveros, 2011)
Film screening 21:00 A Lista de ChorinPortuguese documentary film
(HU) Commemoration by former child residents of the house.
(HU) Reading of poems by Endre Ady and Miklós Radnóti. Recollections of a survivor.
(HU) Sándor Révész remembers: "My mother was snatched away from here, and returned here on foot. She was among the first who came back from Lichtenwörth. She rang the bell, my sister opened the door, thinking it was a beggar, and wanted to give them alms. My mother fainted, and that's when they recognized her."
(HU) Judit Pogány reads out Józsi Jenő Tersánszky’s 1944 will.
(HU) Fókusz Bookshops: Roundtable discussion and reading organized by Líra. With Holocaust-related publications from Corvina and Magvető Press.
(HU) “Parallel Biographies” - Gabriella Medgyessi and Eszter Anna Szilágyi.
(HU) Actor D. Géza Hegedűs reads from Ernő Szép book “The Smell of Humans.” With Dániel Kardos on guitar.
(HU) A former resident of the house from 1941 to 1956 holds a short talk based on their own memories and those of other former residents, together with their “little sister,” born a few days after the Liberation of Budapest.
18:30
(HU) The March of the Living Foundation commemorates Holocaust survivors, together with arts patrons and volunteers, at former yellow-star houses of the 13th district:
Alig street 12. 18:30-18:50with violinist Orsolya Korcsolán and horn player Gergely Sugár
Pannónia street 54. 18:55-19:15
Hollán Ernő street 49. 19:20-19:40
Szent István park 2. 20:20-20:40
Pozsonyi road 28. 20:45-21:05with violinist Orsolya Korcsolán and horn player Gergely Sugár
Pozsonyi road 20. 21:10-21:30with violinist Orsolya Korcsolán and horn player Gergely Sugár
Pozsonyi road 16. 21:35-21:55
Pozsonyi road 12. 22:00-22:20
Újpesti rakpart 5. 22:30-22:50
(HU) OSA Archivum historian András Mink gives a talk on the former residents of the house.
(HU) Literary selection, commemoration, song, Kaddish. Exhibition of children’s drawings entitled “Shoah Never Again!”
(HU) Lighting candles in memory of the Königsberg, Klein and Szabados families. With Orsolya Korcsolán on violin.
(HU) Greta Piovano on cello, and resident Tamás Elek reads the yellow-star houses decree. With recollections from former resident Magdolna Lázár and poetry reading by Tamás Dunai.
19:00
(HU, PL)
19:00Exhibition opening: The Yellow-Star Houses, Holocaust Memorials We Live With.
19:30Presentation: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw | Jan Karski, the first witness to inform the Allies about the Holocaust in 1942.
20:30Film screening: (1) Henryk Slawik, the Polish Wallenberg, 2004, directed by Grzegorz Łubczyk and Marek Maldis; and (2) Raoul Wallenberg’s War, 2012, directed by Gregor Nowinski.
22:00Guide to the library (Andrássy road 32. entrance)
22:15Lighting candles and commemoration, front gate and courtyard of Andrássy road 32.
22:30Film screening: Örök Éva, 2006, directed by László Nádasy.
19:30
(HU) Guided walk by the Belváros Free University. Meeting place: in front of Deák Ferenc street 21., and walk to the Glass House.
(HU) Welcome
Opening prayer Sivisi, from Psalm 16
Historical overview
Reading aloud the 1944 Budapest mayoral decree
Lighting candles
“Kél molé” (the martyrs’ prayer)
Kaddish
Placing of memorial stones
Program lasts approximately 20 minutes
20:00
(HU) Guided walk by the Belváros Free University past 18 yellow-star houses to the Glass House. Itinerary: Deák Ferenc street > Október 6. street > Arany János street > Vadász street
Concert by the Göncölszekér ensemble.
(HU) Commemoration in front of the house and inside the building (if Mikveh not in use). Photo exhibition on the Budapest ghetto on display all day at the Szimpla kert bar next door.
(HU) All are welcome at the temporary outdoor cinema in the courtyard of Pannónia street 54. Reading of the 1944 yellow-star houses decree, screening of video interviews, personal memories of Katalin Sweitzer with quotations from Éva Székely. Evening open house. Installation by the TÁJÉK group.
20:15
(HU) Holocaust survivor Mrs. Iván Besnyő talks about the house and her family. With pupils from the Sztehlo Gábor Evangelical High School, led by Natália Baglyos. Yiddish and Hebrew songs performed by the Kontrabajusz Choir led by Zsóka Incze.
20:30
(HU, EN)
20:30Aliza Auerbach exhibition opening: Survivors
21:00Concert by the MÁV Symphony Orchestra
21:00Exhibition guided tour
(HU) Remembering the former residents. Performance on ghettoization, overcrowding and conditions in the deportation wagons. Menorah at sundown.
20:45
(HU) Lighting candles, exhibition and Hremzli tasting.
21:00
(HU) Belváros Free University at the Glass House. Talk on the history of the building by historian György Vámos.
Concert by MÁV Symphony Orchestra.
(HU) Guided exhibition tour.
(HU, EN)
Who wants to remember here? Closing event: OSA Archivum reflects on the events of 70 years ago. Projection of the day’s most important events and commemorations onto the building’s façade. OSA Archivum is the initiator of the Yellow-star Houses project.
21:00(HU) Video message from historian Krisztián Ungváry, at Dohány street 74.
21:30What was left out from the Wallenberg Memorial Concert: Beethoven Op. 57 Appassionata sonata, performed by pianist Zsolt Medgyesi.
(HU) Film screening of the Portuguese documentary “A Lista de Chorin.”
(HU) UNCLE BANDI’S STREET: Film screening onto the wall of the house. Music by Csilla Domonkos. Visuals: Dániel Besnyő, Dénes Beviz. Project manager: Katalin Nádor.
(HU) UNCLE BANDI’S STREET: Film screening onto the wall of the house. Music by Csilla Domonkos. Visuals: Dániel Besnyő, Dénes Beviz. Project manager: Katalin Nádor.
(HU) UNCLE BANDI’S STREET: Film screening onto the wall of the house. Music by Csilla Domonkos. Visuals: Dániel Besnyő, Dénes Beviz. Project manager: Katalin Nádor.
(HU) UNCLE BANDI’S STREET: Talk by historian Krisztián Ungváry in front of the 1956 Institute. Film screening onto the walls of the houses nearby (Dohány Street 57., 59., 61.). Music by Csilla Domonkos. Visuals: Dániel Besnyő, Dénes Beviz. Project manager: Katalin Nádor.
22:00
(HU) Belváros Free University’s candlelit walk to Deák Ferenc street 21. Candles provided.
(HU) Installation of texts and images, lighting candles.
(EN, HU) Hungarian folk song “Szól a kakas”, poetry readings, readings of selected reflections sealed in envelopes. In English and Hungarian.
in front of the entrance to the still-functioning synagogue
(HU) Welcome
Opening prayer Sivisi, from Psalm 16
Historical overview
Reading aloud the 1944 Budapest mayoral decree
Lighting candles
“Kél molé” (the martyrs’ prayer)
Kaddish
Placing of memorial stones
Program lasts approximately 20 minutes
22:30
(HU) Film screening in the ground floor lecture hall. Organized by the Belváros Free University.
Sunday, June 22., 11:00
(HU) Opera singer András Hábetler performs the Hungarian folk song “Szól a kakas már.”
Hanna Hábetler reads Tamás Schüttler’s novella “Wooden Boards in the Middle of the Street.”
Reading aloud the names of families who lived in the house on June 21, 1944. Conversation with survivors’ children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, on the memories of the yellow-star houses.
Exhibition of historical documents (photos, protection letters, 1944 death certificates).