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.
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.

