The Holocaust in Hungary [antikvár]

Introduction The Holocaust Documentation Center and Memorial Collecdon opened on April 15, 2004 to mark the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Holocaust. An interna-rional conference was organized on April 16-18 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The papers presented at this conference have been collected, edited and annotated in this volume. Fifty-three speakers, in nine sections, presented the latest results of their research to nearly six hundred participants. The main aim of the conference was to allow experienced, Hungarian and international researchers as well as young experts to come together and give thought to the Hungarian Holocaust and its international contexts. Two thirds of the speakers arrived from Hungarian universities and academic institutions and these were joined by well-known research colleagues from the United States, Canada, Israel, Italy, Germany, Poland and Romania. Following the welcoming speeches and the introductory plenary lecture given by Professor Randolph L. Braham, in keeping with the conference programme, the first part of our volume deals with the events leading up to the Holocaust. A total of thirteen papers seek answers to anti-Semitism from various aspects as well as describing the genesis and enforcement of the Jewish laws and decrees with the help of newly uncovered documents. The second group of papers deal with the Jewish rescuers, the self-rescuers and they also examine the relationships between Jews and other social groups in the aftermath of World War II. We have dedicated a separate section to the presentation of Romanian and Northern-Transylvanian Jews. The fourth section contains five papers which look at the persecution of non-Jewish victim including Gypsies, homosexuals and Jehovah's Witnesses during World War II.