Hungarian Jews and the 1956 Revolution

Viktória Bányai will participate in the international conference Hungarian Jews and the 1956 Revolution, organized by the Jewish Theological Seminary - University of Jewish Studies (OR-ZSE) and held in Budapest on October 13–14.

On October 13, she will give a presentation entitled A Cancelled Trip to Paris: The Inauguration of the Monument to the Unknown Jewish Martyr on October 30, 1956. The book she co-edited with Kinga Frojimovics, “Tartozunk ezzel mártirjaink emlékének, önmagunknak, a világ zsidóságának” A holokauszt emlékezete 1956 nyarán Magyarországon" [We Owe This to the Memory of Our Martyrs, to Ourselves, and to World Jewry: The Memory of the Holocaust in Hungary in the Summer of 1956] (Budapest: Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives, 2026), will also be presented.