Yellow Star House Project
Urban collectivization, Hungarian Jews, World War II, Budapest Ghetto, Deportation, History of Hungary, History of Budapest
A public memory project carried out in Budapest, Hungary, in 2014, designed to educate and inform both Budapestians and a wider public about the forced relocation of Hungarian Jews and internationals into "yellow-star houses" in June 1944. <br /><br />In 1944, 1 out of 3 people living in Budapest were of Jewish descent. This forced relocation was the result of a <a title="decree issued by Budapest mayor Ákos Dorogi Farkas" href="http://www.yellowstarhouses.org/#overlay=historical_background/decrees" target="_blank">decree issued by the mayor of Budapest</a>, not by the Nazi forces that were also present in the city. Although practically every Budapestian knows the location and short history of the Budapest Ghetto, the Yellow Star Houses have been almost entirely forgotten. It is therefore an important intervention into the battle over historical memory currently underway in Hungarian national politics surrounding World War II: this is a indisputably story of what the Hungarian government did to its own people.<br /><br />The project began with a virtual mapping of the Yellow Star Houses on a website. Stickers were then placed on the doors of these houses in Budapest, inviting people to visit the website and learn more about this forgotten history. Over the next several months, <a title="testimonies and reactions to events" href="http://www.yellowstarhouses.org/#overlay=reflections" target="_blank">personal testimonies and other reactions to the events</a> accumulated there, mostly by people who had lived in those houses. On June 21, 2014, during the annual Budapest "Night of the Museums," there was a city-wide memorialization of the 70th anniversary of the deportations/collectivization. Organized in a grass-roots manner via the website and PR department of a not-for-profit institution, hundreds of individual events took place all over the city, at the houses themselves, on public tours, and at a wide range of cultural institutions. The project will culminate with an exhibit about the Budapest Ghetto in December 2014. <br /><br />Included in this item are: <br /><ul><li>the <a title="Yellow Star House Project (English)" href="http://www.yellowstarhouses.org/" target="_blank">Yellow Star Houses website</a>;</li>
<li>a <a title="video about the Yellow Star Houses Project" href="http://youtu.be/HKtU79Qi0ug" target="_blank">video about the project</a> produced by Ohio State University students in the 2014 Global May Hungary study abroad program;</li>
<li>a PDF of the schedule for June 21, 2014, with a map of Budapest keyed to the various types of events</li>
<li>three screenshots of the map of Budapest at different scales illustrating</li>
</ul><ol><li>the placement of the Yellow Star Houses <strong>in relation to the Ghetto</strong> established in December 1944</li>
<li>the <strong>density of Yellow Star Houses</strong> in downtown Pest</li>
<li>the <strong>distribution of Yellow Star Houses</strong> in the city of Budapest as a whole.</li>
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<a title="Open Society Archivum" href="Open%20Society%20Archivum,%20Budapest,%20Hungary" target="_blank">Open Society Archivum</a>, Budapest, Hungary
<a title="Yellow Star House Project (English)" href="http://www.yellowstarhouses.org/" target="_blank">Yellow Star House Project</a>; <a title="Csillagos Házak (Hungarian)" href="http://www.csillagoshazak.hu/" target="_blank">Csillagos Házak 1944-2014</a>
2014
1 pdf; 3 tiff files; several links
English, Hungarian
1) map and schedule of events; 2) screenshots of website; 3) websites
THE POPULATION OF SALONIKA BETWEEN THE YEARS 1478-1623
population consistency of the city of Salonika
Dimitris Venizelos
Lowry, Heath W. “Portrait of a City: The Population and Topography of Ottoman Selanik (Thessaloniki) in the Year 1478.” Hetaireia Vyzantinōn kai Metavyzantinōn Meletōn; Diptucha-, 1979
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