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The Memory of 9/11 Unites America Even in the Most Divided Times

‘For us Hungarians it is easy to empathize with Americans over their national tragedy, 9/11, given Hungary’s centuries-long history of tragic events. In many ways, 9/11 is similar to Trianon—the greatest national tragedy of the country. The most significant parallel…

‘Remember. August 23’ International Public Education Campaign Honours the Victims of Totalitarian Regimes

The campaign remembers the victims of 20th-century totalitarian regimes in Europe, on the 85th anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on 23 August 1939….
A commemorator at the Memorial Wall of Victims at the Budapest Holocaust Memorial Centre on 16 April 2023

Viktor Orbán on Holocaust Memorial Day: ‘An evil eye, the evil inclination, and hatred for humankind put a person out of the world…Never again!’

16 April has been observed annually since 2001 as the Memorial Day of the Hungarian Victims of the Holocaust. On the 80th anniversary of the ghettoization of Hungarian Jews state dignitaries, including the Hungarian prime minister, and leaders of the…
The bust of Pál Vasvári on the day of its inauguration in the garden of the National Museum in Budapest on 13 March 2021.

Remembering Pál Vasvári — A Martyr Whose Memory Is Still a Cohesive Force for Transylvanian Hungarians

It has been 174 years since Major Pál Vasvári and his Rákóczi Free Army were massacred near Havasnagyfalu (today Mărișel in Romania), on 6 July 1849. Despite all resistance forces, the memory of the young revolutionary and his fellow martyrs…

Hungary’s National Anthem is 200 Years Old

Hungary’s national anthem, the Hymn was written 200 years ago by Ferenc Kölcsey….

Recollections of the Past — How Hungarians Remember Communism

While Hungarian national memory of communism is far from being consolidated, the tendency among young people to view their ancestors’ actions under a totalitarian regime with empathy while at the same time to strongly reject communism as a political ideology…

EU Memory Politics — Downplaying the Trauma of Communism

EU memory politics places almost exclusive emphasis on Nazism and downplays the significance of Communism in the historical experience of East-Central European members states….

Museum Dedicated to the Victims of Communism Opened in Washington D.C. with Hungarian Contribution

With 1.5 billion people still living under Communist dictatorships, viewing the collapse of the USSR as the end of the horrors of Communism is misguided. The Victims of Communism Museum in Washington D.C., opened this summer with financial contribution from…

Marking Raoul Wallenberg Day

5 October is dedicated to Raoul Wallenberg, who saved the lives of one hundred thousand Hungarian Jews during World War II….

A Queen Loved Beyond Her Borders: The British Royal Family’s Special Relationship with Hungary

Mourning the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Hungary remembers her historic visit in 1993, when she expressed joy over the country joining the family of democratic Western nations after decades of state socialist rule. Over the years, not only Her…

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