The Holocaust in Hungary : seventy years later / edited by Randolph L. Braham and András Kovács.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Braham, Randolph L., editor.

Kovács, András, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Persecutions--Hungary--Congresses.

Jews.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary--Congresses.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Ethnic relations.

Jews--Persecutions.

Hungary--Ethnic relations--Congresses.

Hungary.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 319 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Jewish Studies Program : Central European University Press, [2016]

Summary:

The Holocaust in Hungary represented a unique chapter in the singular history of the Final Solution of the "Jewish question" in Europe. In the fifth year of the Second World War Hungary still had a Jewish population of approximately 800,000. Although this large and relatively intact Jewish community was deprived of its basic rights as citizens, had suffered close to 62,000 casualties, had been confronted with the hardships of discrimination, and had endured the vicissitudes of a military-related labor service system, it continue to enjoy relative physical safety under the aristocratic-conservative regime of Hungary until the German occupation on March 19, 1944. How was all this possible? And if all this was possible until March 1944, why could it not continue for a few more months? Was it really inevitable that hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews would, within a few months, become victims of the gas chambers of Auschwitz? Could the Holocaust in Hungary have been averted and who were responsible for the violent deaths of over a half a million Hungarian Jews in the ghettos, on the deportation trains, in the extermination and concentration camps, during the death marches, and the mass shootings into the Danube? Starting from these difficult questions, the present volume offers readers the most recent scholarship on the history and memory of the Holocaust in Hungary. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Introduction

Hungarian Intentionalism: New Directions in the Historiography of the Hungarian Holocaust / András Kovács Kovács, András 3

II The Path to the Holocaust

The Antisemitism of István Bethlen and Jewish Policy in the Horthy Era / Ignác Romsics Romsics, Ignác 27

The Numerus Clausus and the Anti-Jewish Laws / Mária M. Kovács Kovács, Mária M. 37

Continuities of the "Jewish Question" in Hungary since the "Golden Age" / Victor Karady Karady, Victor 45

III The Age of Persecution

The Origins of the Military Labor Service System in Hungary / László Csösz Csösz, László 75

Master Plan? The Decision-Making Process behind the Deportations / Krisztián Ungváry Ungváry, Krisztián 105

The Holocaust in Transylvania / Zoltán Tibori Szabó Szabó, Zoltán Tibori 147

The Sociology of Survival: The Presence of the Budapest Jewish Population Groups of 1941 in the 1945 Budapest Population / Péter Tibor Nagy Nagy, Péter Tibor 183

Across the Iron Curtain-Hungarian Jewish Refugees in Austria, 1945-49: The Letters to Enns / Rebekah Klein-Pejšová Klein-Pejšová, Rebekah 195

IV The Memory of the Holocaust

Hungarian Memory of the Holocaust in Hungary / Gábor Gyáni Gyáni, Gábor 215

Global and Local Holocaust Remembrance / Mónika Kovács Kovács, Mónika 231

Digitalized Memories of the Holocaust in Hungary in the Visual History Archive / Andrea Petö Petö, Andrea 251

Hungary: The Assault on the Historical Memory of the Holocaust / Randolph L. Braham Braham, Randolph L. 261.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Container of: Kovács, András, 1947- Hungarian intentionalism: new directions in the historiography of the Hungarian Holocaust.

ISBN:

9789633861479

9633861470

OCLC:

935676775