CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Tudzin, Jessica Taylor |
|---|---|
| Title | Holocaust Memorials in Budapest, Hungary, 1987-2010: Through the words of the memorial artists |
| Summary | This thesis analyzes how Budapest, Hungary represents the Holocaust through a selection of its most significant memorials and monuments, derived from the oral testimonies of the memorial artists who created them. The artists featured in this thesis belong to two groups: Those who lived through and experienced aspects of WWII as it unfolded in Hungary and those born after—the so-called “postmemory” generation—who came to know the event vicariously through the stories of others, as well as the media. This thesis shows how the two generations interpret the Hungarian Holocaust, and how those interpretations are reflected in their works of art. In large part, the inspiration behind this thesis was born out of Tim Cole’s Turning the Places of Holocaust History into Places of Holocaust Memory, in which he uses Budapest, Hungary, as a case study for Holocaust memorials erected between 1945 and 1995. His research, derived from personal observation and various media sources was conducted in the mid-1990s and early 2000s, and suggests that the city’s memorials lack Jewish specificity and are ill-placed, in hidden or inappropriate locations. This thesis seeks to update Cole’s findings, reviewing specifically memorials erected from 1986 to 2010, to evaluate if these characteristics still exist within the city’s Holocaust commemoration. But more importantly, it seeks to add another layer of meaning to his research through the words of the commemoration artists themselves. |
| Supervisor | Advisor: Dr. Markian Prokopvych |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/taylor-tudzin_jessica.pdf |
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