December 16, 2014
Open Society Archives’ (OSA) “Yellow Star Houses” program was awarded the Gyorgy Varhegyi Prize for Hungarian Jewish Education by the Hungarian Jewish Cultural Association (MAZSIKE) on Dec. 11. On the 70th anniversary of the Hungarian Holocaust, the “Yellow-star Houses” initiative explored the history of the designated places of residence for the Jews of Budapest. In September 2014, OSA’s virtual exhibitions on the yellow-star houses were featured on Google's Open Gallery.
November 18, 2014
Google features Open Society Archives' exhibit entitled “1956-301-1989, Prehistory to the 1989 Fall of Communism of Hungary” on its Cultural Institute website from Nov. 13, as part of a series of exhibits commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Iron Curtain.
November 18, 2014
Truth and Objectivity Film Laboratory, is a unique film series that runs through November 20 and aims to explore documentaries associated with historical truthfulness and objectivity. It's related to the CEU course Historiography: Themes in Its History and Approaches to Its Theory.
Program directors: Ioana Macrea-Toma, Istvan Rev and Zsuzsanna Zadori.
Thursday, November 20 at 6:00 p.m.
November 18, 2014
Title/Position: Chief Archivist at OSANumber of years at CEU: 15Home city/town & country: Budapest, Hungary
What’s your favorite Hungarian food?Ewe cheese noodles with fried bacon cubes. In fact, halusky is a regional food rather than Hungarian. I go to the Halusky Festival every year.
November 4, 2014
Truth and Objectivity Film Laboratory, through November 20, is a unique film series to explore documentaries associated with historical truthfulness and objectivity. It's related to the CEU course called, Historiography: Themes in Its History and Approaches to Its Theory.Programmers: Ioana Macrea-Toma, Istvan Rev and Zsuzsanna Zadori.
November 4, 2014
Verzio, the only human rights documentary film festival in Hungary, addresses a wide range of issues, including political oppression, civil conflicts, minorities, refugees, racial discrimination, trafficking, LGBTQ identity, historic traumas, and children's rights November 11-16.
October 21, 2014
Human pathologist and university professor Istvan Bartok (1929-2007) was an avid follower and chronicler of changes in both the urban and political landscape of post-Communist Budapest and Hungary in general. Following his retirement in 1990, he relentlessly photographed the various districts, blocks, buildings, facades, memorial plaques, shop windows and street advertisements of Budapest.
October 7, 2014
Open Society Archives is hosting a unique film series through November 20 to explore some of the most interesting documentary films of our times associated with historical truthfulness and objectivity. Working with found footage, interviewing, meditating, observing, and re-enacting past events, or combining these methods, the films in the series present various ways of investigating, revealing and verifying truth.
September 17, 2014
Open Society Archive's (OSA) two virtual exhibitions on the yellow-star houses are now featured on Google's Open Gallery homepage at https://www.google.com/opengallery. The exhibitions explore the history of the Hungarian yellow-star houses, a network of almost 2,000 apartment buildings where 220,000 Budapest Jews were forced to live for half a year, from June 21 1944.
September 9, 2014
OSA unveiled “QR code”, an illustration of how family slides become public history. Consisting of 2,916 slides, the three meters by three meters art piece will be permanently exhibited in the OSA Archivum's Goldberger House in Budapest.
OSA is one of the internationally most well known archives of the recent past, displaying documents on historical events and eras in unusual ways. It is eminently suited, both spatially and spiritually, to display this work of art.
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