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.
July 7, 2014
Foreign Policy magazine reports on the controversial monument in Budapest's "Freedom Square" (Szabadsag Ter) that is, ostensibly, meant to honor victims of the German occupation during WW II. CEU's Amy Brouillette (of the Center for Media and Communication Studies/CMCS) and OSA's Gwen Jones are quoted.
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 19, 2014
The Economist writes about the Yellow-Star Houses Project, an initiative of the Open Society Archives (OSA), CEU's sister organization. The project commemorates a dark period in Budapest's history when the city's Jewish population was forced to move into designated houses, a preliminary step toward deportation. http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2014/06/hungarys-history
June 18, 2014
http://inforadio.hu/hir/belfold/hir-645743 - Hungarian news portal inforadio.hu reports: As Istvan Rev, director of Open Society Archives (OSA) of Central European University remarked in front of Nepszinhaz Street 46, on June 21, that it was seventy years to the date that nearly 200,000 Jewish citizens of Budapest had been forced to move into houses marked with a yellow star of David.
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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.
May 30, 2014
On May 27 OSA hosted the presentation of Timothy William Waters’ book entitled “The Milosevic Trial – An Autopsy," a cross-disciplinary examination of the longest, most controversial war crimes trial of the modern era. The author was joined by CEU's Rector John Shattuck, former Chief Prosecutor of ICTY Richard Goldstone, and Legal Studies Professor Tibor Varady in a discussion of the "trial of the century."
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