June 30, 2014
70 years ago, two consecutive Budapest mayoral decrees, each with a carefully compiled list of houses, changed the map of Budapest and the lives of the people who live here for ever. 220,000 Budapest citizens defined as Jewish and obliged to wear the yellow star by law were given just a few days to move into one of almost 2,000 compulsory places of residence designated by the decrees, each of which was also marked with a yellow Star of David: the yellow-star houses.
June 16, 2014
Europeana 1989 is a project by Europeana, Europe’s digital library, museum and archive that invites people across Europe to share their experiences, stories, photos and memorabilia from the time of the fall of the Iron Curtain. OSA, the project leader of Europeana 1989 in Hungary, organized two successful collection campaigns in Szeged and Sopron in May. The campaign will continue in Budapest in September this year.
June 16, 2014
June 21 promises to be the largest civic commemoration of the Holocaust Memorial Year in Hungary with concerts, literary readings, performances, discussions, exhibitions and more in front of former yellow-star houses throughout the city, from 8 a.m. until midnight. Marking the 70th anniversary of the forced mass relocation of 220,000 Budapest Jews into around 2,000 designated houses marked with the yellow star of David, over 160 civic organizers and 40 participating institutions will be holding commemorative events at many of the 1,600 remaining former yellow-star houses.


