During the last few decades there has been a growing recognition of the great role that
remembering and collective memory play in forming the historical awareness. In addition …

This chapter examines how children's wartime suffering was culturally constructed in
postwar Hungary. Laine-Frigren uses a wide variety of source materials, such as published …

The article challenges the widely shared thesis in memory studies that the antifascist
memory of the Second World War suppressed the Holocaust. Instead of exploring …

The question of what was known in Hungary about the Holocaust has been a mainstay of
research on that chapter since the time of the Kasztner libel trial in the mid-1950s. New …

This article examines three case studies of new-old sensibilities toward antisemitism, the
Holocaust, and liberalism, in Hungary, which show: 1) how in a climate of mutual …

A complex array of individual responses to the abuse of power by the state is represented in
this book in three horrific episodes in the history of East-Central Europe. The three events …

The National Relief Committee for Deportees (Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottság,
DEGOB), in addition to its extensive aid activities, had two other important tasks: to send …

Catastrophe and Utopia studies the biographical trajectories, intellectual agendas, and
major accomplishments of select Jewish intellectuals during the age of Nazism, and the …

The current paper explores the main Hungarian literary representations of Buchenwald.
While the discussion below presents the most relevant historical facts, relates to …

This review essay explores recent scholarship on the history of Jews in the post-Habsburg
territories, before and after the Second World War. The impressive wave of scholarship that …