PRIME MINISTERS OFFICE

H U N GA RI A N H O LO CA U ST M EM ORI A L YEA R 2014 .

Co ntents: I. Idea tio nal fo unda tio n o f the Memo rial Year II. Memorial Da ys III. Dir ectly funded pro gra mmes IV. Funding pr ogra mme

I. Ideational Foundation of the Memorial Year

"I lived upon this earth in such an age when man was so debased he sought to murder for pleasure, not just to comply with orders, his faith in falsehoods drove him to corruption, his life was ruled by raving self-deception" (Mikls Radnti: Fragment)

The basis of human existence and culture is memory. Those without memories are not alive, because life is memory itself. Life. This is what provides individuals with the uplifting and sometimes tragic feelings of conscious identity and selfconsciousness, and for communities of being part of a religion, ethnic group or nation, of belonging somewhere, the feeling of "we". Those without memory live in a loss of existence, forgetting what they have experienced, where they come from and where they are going. They do not live, but instead only wonder, swept by the eternal passing of fleeting moments.

Holocaust Memorial Year wishes to act against forgetting and indifference. By naming unforgivable and irredeemable crimes and those responsible for them, and bowing its head in respect to the martyrdom of the innocent victims. If possible by collecting, reviewing, documenting, publishing, reading out and uttering the names of every single victim in Hungary from the smallest village to the largest city, from the ghettos, brick factories and railway stations to the gas chambers and mass graves. The wonderful potential of the 21st century, the Internet, is also used as a place of remembrance for the most terrible events of the 20th century. As an eternal and cautionary electronic memento. The Holocaust Memorial Year will be worthy of the grandeur of the losses suffered by the nation, if its message reaches everyone, if every settlement and community awakens the memories of the past in its own way and according to its own means. If it examines and admits the relationship it and its community has with its own past, and with the "Shoah". It is only in this way that remembering death can become the march of life.

The Holocaust is a tragedy of man, a series of atrocious crimes committed against mankind and humanity, because everyone is equal in their humanity. Human. And as such, they are equal to other men. It is no accident that the wild ideas of racial theory attacked precisely this fundamental truth to find an excuse for its terrible actions. "An ancient rat spreads disease among us, / the thought that is considered 2

unthought, / it sticks its snout into what we have cooked up, / it runs from one human to another. / () Faith and gratitude burrow deep inside us, / and our tears are dropping into flames / We are caught in an alternating dance, / of craving for revenge, and conscience." (Attila Jzsef: An Ancient Rat)

The Holocaust is a tragedy of the Hungarian people, of the whole Hungarian nation. Irrespective of what community people professed to belong to, because such belonging can extremely diverse and many-folded. From the desire for assimilation and total identification, to separation. The limit to the freedom of cultural, religious, national or ethnic self-identity is the existence of the other party. If someone attempts to destroy this, they are committing a crime. Every individual, every life is in itself a treasure and a wonder, the wonder of existence. Questioning this fact is a fundamental attack on human life.

Only the righteous can be true patriots, who protect all eight and people according to the eternal laws of nature. The rescuers of Jews rescued people; this is why they are Righteous Among the Nations. Those who rescue people, rescue life, past, present and memory; this is what they stand for. The truth lies in not suppressing, recognising and admitting the fact that the utmost treasure is human life, existence itself. Which upright men of character and ethos will protect under all circumstances, even at the risk of their own lives. "() for, silent amongst rogues, I share their vice. / Kin will be made responsible for kin / each man must go the way Thou sendest him. / But the wicked will sneer at what is good. / See how they mocked me, oh Heavenly God! / They pilloried Thy servant, yes, it happened! / For truth and sermons are too weak as weapons, / fine words and prayers here do not much avail, / while battles and Power's arrows never fail. " (Mihly Babits: The Book of Jonas) Truly moral actions always choose the more difficult path. This requires resolve, will, strength and courage, which not all people possess to the same extent. How much easier it is to let it be, to appear uninterested, to withdraw and hide from responsibility, than to take the risk.

Extreme nationalists and internationalists, fascists and communists, nazis and chauvinists violate the order of nature to an equal extent because they mean to increase their own power at the expense of others. True nationals, internationals and free thinkers, however, regard all people as equal from the perspective of law and morals, respecting and viewing all nations, ethnic groups and religions with a feeling of special understanding and association. The Hungarian Jewry, whatever they may 3

have professed to be, believer, religious or unreligious, unbeliever, Hungarian Jew, or Jewish Hungarian, or someone of Jewish decent, converted to Christianity or Zionist, as Hungarian or as Hungarian citizen he was part of the nation. The tragic message of the Hungarian Holocaust, which should heeded, is that every Hungarian citizen is responsible for every other Hungarian citizen, be they Jewish, Roma or regard themselves as belonging party or to a mixed extent to any group.

The Hungarian Holocaust is a tragedy for the whole Hungarian nation, the tragedy of the ancient Hungarian peoples. We became fewer and less valuable with every forcefully deported individual, no matter how we calculate the victims, because the extermination of human life is in itself too much. The loss is immeasurably irreplaceable. "Profit all of you from this example. This is what man is like, a singular sample. No copy existed before, nor does one at present. As on a living branch each leaf is different, so time itself will breed no simulacrum." (Dezs Kosztolnyi: Funeral Oration) It is when we refer this to ourselves, to our own bodies, our health and to our whole existence that we can truly comprehend the full extent of this loss. The Hungarian Holocaust cut from within us our own, Jewish part, because in cohabitation, even if in a contradictory way, but we became part of each other. It is a great torment and outrage that we let it happen. That indifference and various levels of cooperation gave ground for destruction. We rescued people, but not enough of us and not enough of them. Christian communities, foreign and Hungarian civil organisations objected and rescued; sometimes even neighbours and acquaintances, the intelligentsia and fellow writers helped to hide the persecuted. The majority of the Jewry living in rural areas were lost, including a painfully large number of children, but the majority of those in Budapest survived. True remembrance and the experiencing of the past is our remembering in the present. Although there are of course ever fewer survivors and the guilty living amongst us, because two generations, seventy years have now passed. But facing and embracing solidarity with history and our own past obliges us, those who are alive today, who are here because we are able to be here, to remember our past now in the present. The absence of those who cold not be born is the silent scream of our living history. Their unbearable silence penetrates our souls. "I tumble near his body, already taunt as a string about to break. Shot through the nape. You will end up like that, I mutter to myself. Lie still. Be patient. The flower of death unfolds in fear. I wait. Blood mixed with grows clotted on my ear. I hear a soldier quip: He'll get away yet." (Mikls Radnti, Picture Postcards, 4)

Introduction In the interests of enabling the Holocaust Memorial Year to achieve the most wideranging possible within Hungarian society, as a general criteria it would be worth endeavouring to present the Holocaust as to a great an extent as possible a national tragedy and a tragedy of the ancient Hungarian people during the course of the programmes realised, and not as purely a tragedy of the Jewish people. It would be expedient to especially support initiatives that draw attention to how much the Hungarian nation has lost in the social, cultural and academic fields as a result of the persecution of the Jews and the Holocaust. In addition to commemorating the tragic events, special attention should be placed on those rescuers operating in Hungary or of Hungarian origin, who saved countless lives and so may be presented to the public as positive examples.

The prominent role of the state is essential during the course of the Memorial Year, with in view of its significance to the whole of society, the active participation of the historic churches and the civil sphere is equally important. The role of the church in interpreting the Holocaust as a national tragedy is especially important, and also presents the opportunity for presenting the activities of rescuers, several of whom had affiliations to one or other of the historic churches. With regard to the civil sphere, based on just the proposals and recommendations submitted to the Hungarian Holocaust 2014 Memorial Committee, it is clear that there are several initiatives of an academic or cultural nature, the realisation of which it would be important for the Government to support, and into the detailed elaboration and realisation of which it would be expedient to also involve non-governmental organisations. This justifies the establishment of a Funding Programme, within the framework of which non-governmental organisation or even local governments could apply for funding for programmes to be realised during the course of the memorial Year.

II. Memorial Days

During the Memorial Year, memorial days will occur roughly every three months, and structure the programmes of the Memorial Year: many events are timed to coincide with remembrance days or are associated with them, and it would also be expedient to time the closing of programmes with longer run-though periods to coincide with remembrance days. 5

27th January 2014, International Holocaust Remembrance Day

The main programme of the Remembrance Day is also the official opening ceremony of the Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Year The main programme of the Remembrance Day: A memorial speech by President of the Republic Jnos der at the Hungarian barracks of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp The Memorial Committee will travel to Auschwitz-Birkneau in order to participate in the commemoration

Events directly related to the Remembrance Day: The International Holocaust Conference in Budapest, jointly organised by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Holocaust Documentation Centre and Memorial Collection The issuing of a commemorative stamp to mark the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust

16th April 2013, Hungarian Memorial Day for the Victims of the Holocaust

The most important memorial day of the Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Year The main programme of the Memorial Day: The inauguration of the Child Victims of the Holocaust Memorial - European Education Centre in the former Jzsefvros Station building Commemorative events throughout the country: reading of the names of the victims in every Hungarian settlement involved Visit to Hungary by the Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel and the Director of the Yad Vashem Institute The March for Life, in Budapest The World Summit of Hungarian-born Holocaust survivors and Righteous Among the Nations award winners from Hungary or with ties to Hungary, in Budapest School programs to mark the Memorial Day

Events directly related to the Memorial Day: A guest performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in the Palace of the Arts A conference on Hungarian rescuers with the involvement of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, The Holocaust Documentation Centre and Memorial Collection and representatives of the major churches

2nd August 2014, International Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day

The programmes for the Remembrance Day will specifically commemorate the Roma Holocaust The main programme of the Remembrance Day: Central, state commemoration of the victims of the Roma Holocaust the inauguration of the renovated Star Fort in Komrom A meeting of history teachers in the Komrom Star Fort to commemorate the Roma deportations; the staging of a joint conference by the Tom Lantos Institute and the Museum of Komrom The unveiling of a Roma Holocaust Memorial with the collaboration of the National Roma Self-Government An exhibition of the work of Roma visual artists

Events directly related to the Remembrance Day: A roundtable discussion entitled "Pharrajimos and Shoa: two words, one memory" with representatives from Roma and Jewish organisations at the headquarters of the National Roma Self-Government

9th November 2014, Mikls Radnti Memorial Day

It would be worth declaring 9 November 2014 Mikls Radnti Memorial Day to mark the 70th anniversary of the poet's death. This is justified by Radnti's highly significant role in Hungarian literature and especially in education; his human and artistic career clearly illustrated the loss suffered by Hungarian society with regard to art and in a more general cultural sense as a results of the Holocaust. It would be expedient to use the Memorial Day to thematically illustrate these cultural losses. The main programme of the Memorial Day: Programmes organised by Hungarian state, local government independent cultural institutes to mark Radnti Memorial Day and

Events directly related to the Memorial Day: School programs to mark the Memorial Day A professional conference on teaching the Holocaust with the participation of international guests

27th January 2015, International Holocaust Remembrance Day

The main programme of the Remembrance Day is also the official closing ceremony of Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Year The main programme of the Remembrance Day: The invitation of members of the Israeli Government to Hungary; the joint presentation of Righteous Among the Nations awards to non-Jewish Hungarian rescuers by the Israeli and Hungarian Governments, in Budapest

Events directly related to the Remembrance Day: The unveiling of a memorial to Hungarian victims in Auschwitz The staging of a large-scale concert in the Hungarian State Opera, including works by Schoenberg, Bernstein, Bloch, Bruch and others The public evaluation of the experiences of the Memorial Year by the Hungarian Holocaust - 2014 Memorial Committee, and their review of the programmes realised and the most important achievements

III. Directly Funded Programmes

Diplomacy and International Relations

Joining the group of nations that support the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation The Foundation is responsible for the Auschwitz Museum and for maintaining the site. Donations to the budget may be made by countries in which there was no Holocaust (e.g. Malta), but there are also countries that were affected by the Holocaust, but which do not support the Foundation at all (e.g. Lithuania, Latvia and Slovakia). 438 000 of the 1.3 prisoners who arrived in Auschwitz came from Hungary; most of them were killed. The Office of the Prime Minister recommends the transfer of a sum of 80-150 thousand Euros. It would be expedient to announce this towards the beginning of the Memorial Year during international programme that members of the Government will be involved in. Diplomatic Visits The organisation of high-level diplomatic visits between Israel and Hungary, within the framework of which the Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel and the President of the Yad Vashem Institute will also pay visits to Hungary. Additionally, in February 2015, members of the Israeli and Hungarian Governments will hold a joint meeting. Convincing UNESCO to patronise the entirety of the Memorial Year would improve the international visibility of the commemorations, and it would provide Hungary with an opportunity to proper self-presentation. Travelling exhibition at diplomatic representations abroad The creation of a travelling exhibition that presents Jewish life before and after the Second World War through the history of Hungarian towns and villages. Rudolf Klein has mapped the synagogues and Jewish architectural treasures of the Carpathian Basin; the creation of an exhibition from this material that presents specifically architectural treasures, the history of construction and the state and use of buildings today. Programmes by the Balassi Institute and Hungarian institutes abroad The provision of supplementary funding to enable Hungarian institutes abroad to realise programs and exhibitions with relation to the Memorial Year. The Balassi Institute will play a central role in organising commemorative events: the various institutes will organise their own exhibitions and conferences on the subject of the Hungarian Holocaust and Hungarian rescuers, in addition to which the Metro Gallery's exhibition, which will be compiled during the memorial Year, may also be presented as a travelling exhibition in Hungarian institutes abroad. In addition, the 9

Balassi Institute may cooperate with the Memorial Museum of Hungarian Speaking Jewry, and through its network of institutes may contribute to enabling the Museum's planned travelling exhibition for 2014 to be presented at the largest possible number of venues.

Realisation: by the Memorial Day on April 16, and throughout the memorial Year.

Memorial Sites

Holocaust Documentation Centre and Memorial Collection It would be appropriate to perform the mechanical refurbishment of the Holocaust Documentation Centre and Memorial Collection's permanent exhibition during the Memorial Year, to include further names of the Wall of Victims, and to establish a Wall of Rescuers. In addition, several programs and events will be realised under the aegis of the Centre during the course of the Memorial Year. Of these, the following are worth highlighting: Temporary exhibitions in connection to the Memorial Year, coordinated with the Memorial Committee The introduction of the building on Pva Street and its surroundings from an urbanhistory perspective The establishment of a Hungarian Holocaust Digital Memorial Library Participation in the development of the teaching kit relating to the Holocaust

The Child Victims of the Holocaust Memorial - European Education Centre The inauguration of the Child Victims of the Holocaust Memorial - European Education Centre will occur in February of the Memorial Year. The centre will be established in the building once occupied by Jzsefvros Station using state funding (the feasibility study is being financed by the American Embassy). Programmes related to the Memorial during the memorial Year: April 2014: opening ceremony, followed by a conference on the history of the Holocaust in Hungary and on rescuers The publication of exhibition guides in multiple languages

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Realisation: the restoration of the Holocaust Documentation Centre and Memorial Collection will occur in two phases to be completed by the Memorial Days on 27th January and 16th April. Programmes and events will occur regularly throughout the Memorial Year. The inauguration of the Child Victims of the Holocaust Memorial - European Education Centre on the 16th April Memorial Day.

Scientific Research, Conferences

Conferences The following conferences will be held in connection with the Memorial Year's various Memorial and Remembrance Days: January 2014: Internatioanl Holocaust Conference jointly organised by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Holocaust Documentation Centre and Memorial Collection April 2014: conference on Hungarian rescuers with the involvement of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, The Holocaust Documentation Centre and Memorial Collection and representatives of the major churches August 2014: meeting of history teachers in the Komrom Star Fort to commemorate the Roma deportations; the staging of a joint conference by the Tom Lantos Institute and the Museum of Komrom November 2014: professional conference on teaching the Holocaust with the participation of international guests Conference on deported children and students, and on the role and actions of teachers who attempted to rescue them

Public Archive Programme Intensive cooperation with the Hungarian National records Office and Israeli Public Archives to provide the most complete identification possible of Holocaust victims and rescuers with the involvement of historical experts on the subject. Particular emphasis will be placed on the finding of child victims of the Holocaust, and the identification of their names and identity.

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Dialogue Programme The development of a series of inter-church and inter-ethnic dialogue programmes at the following venues: the Ministry of Human Resources (Ambassadors, state and church leaders), the National Rabbinical Seminary and Jewish University (representatives of academic life), the Gl Ferenc Theological College of Szeged (church, state and local government representatives within the Carpathian Basin and from academic life), and at the Holocaust Museum in Hdmezvsrhely. Scientific Publications One of the important targets of the Memorial Year is the funding of the creation and publication of high quality scientific publications. Their support will occur within the framework of the funding programme that will be developed in connection with the Memorial Year.

Realisation: in connection with the relative Memorial or Remembrance Day and continuously during the course of the Memorial Year

Heritage Protection

Tokaj-Hegyalja and the Jewry Tokaj-Hegyalja preserves several valuable elements of Jewish heritage. The complex programme built on these elements enables the detailed presentation of the important role once played by the Jewish community in Hungarian society and with respect to our historical wine region, and the loss suffered by society as a result of the Holocaust. The programme also ensures that significant international interest during the course of the Memorial Year will not fall exclusively on the capital, in addition to which it enables the channelling of funds to an economically disadvantaged region. Events related to heritage protection: The complete renovation of the Jewish Merchant House in Srazsadny The establishment of a memorial at the grave of wonder rabbi Mzes Teitelbaum in the cemetery of Storaljajhely, who according to legend prophesised the rise of Lajos Kossuth to become a great statesman The establishment of a Holocaust Memorial (a so-called Central European Wailing Wall) in Olaszliszka to commemorate the settlement's former Jewish community

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Synagogue renovation programme Synagogues whose restoration is made possible from the central budget: Budapest synagogue, Rumbach Sebestyn Street; realisation: 2014 Debrecen synagogue; realisation: 2015 Kszeg synagogue; realisation: 2014 Szabadka synagogue; realisation: 2014

Further heritage protection programmes and programmes of a commemorative nature "Protected Houses" commemorative plaque programme, within the framework of which commemorative plaques will be unveiled in (or at the former sites of) buildings that were under the diplomatic protection of foreign countries during the German occupation; around 100 commemorative plaques will be placed within the framework of the programme. Renovation of the building under number 29 Vadsz Street the Glass House which used to be under the protection of Carl Lutz, Swiss diplomat in 1944. Its future usage: presentation of the Jewish self-rescuing attempts, setting up constant exhibitions. The surveying of the commemorative plaques of rescuers and their restoration as required The continuation of the "tripping stone" initiative (a cobble stone coated with a yellow metal plate including the name of a Holocaust victim, set into the pavement at his/her last place of abode); the placing of new stones and the renovation/replacement of old ones. The discovery and excavation of mass graves on Hungarian territory that contain the bodies of those who died during deportation and forced labour, and the establishment of a suitable memorial. The first step will be the excavation of the mass grave on Guba Hill in Kszeg, including the excavation of the grave in accordance with rabbinical standards and the exhumation of the mortal remains of the dead. The renovation of the grave of Colonel Ferenc Kll, Camp Dean (Farkasrt Cemetery, Hv3-1-59/60) Where possible, the unveiling of commemorative plaques to deported school children and students, and in commemoration of teachers involved in rescuing children The renovation of the Star Fort at Komrom 13

The inauguration of the plot for the heroic military of the First World War at the Jewish Cemetery in Kozma Street, Budapest Preparations for the inauguration of a Roma Holocaust Memorial through the launching of a planning tender; realisation of the August 2 Remembrance Day The inauguration of a statue in commemoration of Colonel Ferenc Koszors, who delayed the deportation of Budapest Jews for three-and-a-half months as Commander of the 1st Armoured Division.

Realisation: continuously during the course of the Memorial Year

Education

The realisation of initiatives related to education must already begin in the 2013/2014 school year, and the holocaust must be included in the curriculum. Special attention should be given to institutions providing excellent quality education that relate to the Jewish community (such as the Fasori Gimnzium, a number of whose former students have been awarded the Nobel Prize) or to the rescuers (such as the Evangelical School named after rescuer Gbor Sztehlo).

Students in public education: Including in the national curriculum the fact that, starting in the 2013/2014 school year, every secondary school student must visit the Budapest Holocaust Documentation Centre and Memorial Collection on at least one occasion during the course of his/her studies. The launching of a new Hungarian-Israeli student exchange programme in 2014, coordinated the two country's relative ministries The organisation of memorial trips to historical sites of the Holocaust Visits by Hungarian teachers and students to the Holocaust Memorial Places in Vienna, in addition to the Jewish Museum in the framework of day trips Int he pursuit of getting to know the Jewish life of Western Hungary, teachers and students together would pay visits to the Memorials of Jewish life int he region The so-called Sd-Westwand, or Southwest Wall would present the wall built by forced laborers in the Hungarian-Austrian territory. The joint Austrian-Hungarian student trips would be possible to realise through

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dedicated Austrian Funds, in addition to financing from the Hungarian Government Where possible, the unveiling of commemorative plaques to deported students and teachers involved in rescuing children The organisation of a series of national quizzes on the Holocaust, beginning in 2013 The inclusion of the iWitness interactive teaching program in public education, with the help of which school children can learn about the issue during several lessons (foreign language lessons, history, social sciences), may analyse interviews, solve questionnaires or even prepare their own short film which they can then upload to the site with their own comments

Teachers in public education: The launching of teacher training courses on the goals and tasks of the Memorial Year starting from the 2013/2014 school year for all secondary school teachers, organised by the Holocaust Documentation Centre and Memorial Collection Accredited teacher training and study trips to Hungarian Holocaust sites, providing the participant teachers with new knowledge and methodology for teaching the Holocaust The development of new multimedia study tools for secondary schools from 2013, which may serve as useful tools for presenting and teaching the Holocaust

School programmes for the Memorial Day on 16th April 2014: The organisation of commemorative events and the holding of thematic lessons The organisation of commemorative walks, during which students may become better acquainted with historic sites The involvement of students in the renovation of disused Jewish cemeteries and synagogues, so that they may become aware of the role of Jewish communities who used to live in the students' own settlements

School programmes for the Radnti Memorial Day on 9th November 2014: The organisation of a national student competition on Radnti 15

The organisation of a national Radnti and Holocaust-related poem-reading competition The launching of artistic competitions (film, poster, drawings, literary works) relating to the Holocaust The organisation of special literature classes with relation to the losses suffered by the Hungarian arts and academic life

Higher education: The launching of new, Israeli-Hungarian student exchange programmes in 2014, coordinated by the two countries' relative ministries The introduction of Holocaust Studies in courses attended by prospective public administration experts studying at the National University of Public Service from the 2013/2014 school year. The encouragement of scientific studies relating to the Holocaust, primarily through the future funding program for Holocaust Memorial Year

Education conferences in connection with the various memorial and remembrance days: August 2014: meeting of history teachers in the Komrom Star Fort to commemorate the Roma deportations; the staging of a joint conference by the Tom Lantos Institute and the Museum of Komrom November 2014: professional conference on teaching the Holocaust with the participation of international guests

Commemorative plaques in schools The unveiling of commemorative plaques in all related schools, with the names of deported students and teachers involved in rescuing children. It would be appropriate to specifically mention the role of rescuer teachers during the conference on teaching the Holocaust and during the planned teacher training course.

Realisation: continuously during the course of the Memorial Year, and in connection with the individual Memorial and Remembrance Days.

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Media

Public media and the Memorial Year: The broadcasting of a selection of films accurately depicting the holocaust and the past and present life of Jewish people on public television in connection with the Memorial Day on 16th April 2014 Media coverage of the most important events, and especially the events of the Memorial Day on 16th April 2014 and Radnti Memorial Day on 9th November 2014 Cooperation with the Media Support and Asset Management Fund in the interests of producing and airing documentaries on the Holocaust and the history of the Hungarian Jewry

Metro Gallery: The organisation of the Metro Gallery's exhibition series entitled "Absence" (Hiny), which summarises the cultural, academic and public losses suffered as a result of the Holocaust, and which are missed by the whole nation The emphasised depiction of memorials to the Roma holocaust within the Metro Gallery's exhibition Exhibitions presented in Hungary should be made available to foreign representations in the form of travelling exhibition for use in their Holocaust memorial events

The Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Year 2014 Website: The publication of a sub-site of the kormany.hu government website in both English and Hungarian, which provides detailed information on the events of the Memorial Year, including those programmes and publications that are realised within the framework of the funding programme detailed below.

Realisation: continuously during the course of the Memorial Year, and in connection with the individual Memorial and Remembrance Days.

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IV. Funding Programme

In view of the fact that the Memorial Committee has received numerous suggestions and recommended initiatives that are clearly worthy of support, but whose funding is not a direct government responsibility, it would seem reasonable to launch a special funding programme supervised by the Office of the Prime Minister. The operation of the college of the National Cultural Fund may serve as a model for the programme. The creation of the funding programme and the launching of the first tenders must already begin in 2013 so that the programmes may be realised during the memorial Year or, if required, to coincide with the earlier Memorial Days. A Board of Trustees chosen from among acknowledged experts from the fields to be funded will decide on the acceptance of tenders. The launching of the funding programme is also justified by the fact that it enables non-governmental organisations to submit further recommendations for initiatives that should be realised, which the Memorial Committee would otherwise not have become aware of.

The main areas supported by the funding programme: Academic publications and other professional literature related to the Holocaust New artistic interpretations of the Holocaust, art exhibitions and related artistic-cultural publications The realisation of Holocaust-related programmes requested by nongovernmental organisations, with special emphasis on initiatives of a local nature Support for local governments and local government institutions that present Jewish traditions and the losses suffered by local communities Support for other public education programmes related to the Holocaust Support for Hungarian state, local government and independent cultural institutions for programmes organised in relation to Radnti memorial Day on 9th November 2014 Grants for researchers, artists and students in secondary and higher education Funding for individual initiatives found worthy of support

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Possible topics based on the recommendations submitted to the Memorial Committee: The organisation of exhibitions and travelling exhibitions The publication of academic studies (the publication of source publications and works on social and urban history, the introduction of rescuers, the presentation of those responsible, e.g. Lszl Ferenczy, Kurt Becher) The presentation and documentation of the activities of rescuers The publication of albums and educational publications The staging of theatrical productions, inviting foreign productions to Hungary The elaboration of academic studies and the creation of artistic works on the Roma Holocaust

13th March 2013, Budapest

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