Sunday, October 12
OPENING
2:00–2:10 PM
Opening: President Gábor Iványi
2:10–2:20 PM
Greetings, on behalf of the organizers: George Eisen, Associate Vice President, Nazareth College
2:20–2:30 PM
Greetings by His Exellency Ilan Mor, Ambassador of the State of Israel (awaiting confirmation)
2:30–2:40 PM
Greetings by Alfred Schőner, Chief Rabbi & President, of the Jewish University and the Jewish Rabbinical Seminary (ORZSE)
2:40–2:50 PM
Greetings by József Schweitzer, retired Chief Rabbi
2:50–3:20 PM
Keynote Address: Ágnes Heller
3:20–3:50 PM
Intermission
THE DEPORTATION OF 1941
3:50–4:10 PM
My Parents and the Kamenets-Podolsk Massacre
Brand, Daniel
4:10–4:30 PM
“Blutsonntag von Stanislau”: A Day in the History of the Hungarian Holocaust
Eisen, George
4:30–4:50 PM
A forgotten Rescuer: Baroness Edith Weiss of Csepel
Fodor, Veronika
4:50–5:10 PM
From Kamenets-Podolsk to Auschwitz
Gábor, Éva
5:10–5:30 PM
Discussion, comments
5:30–5:40 PM
Intermission
5:40–6:00 PM
Addition to the prelude of the Hungarian Holocaust in the light of documents. The Hungarian occupying troops in Transcarpathia 1939-1941
Krausz, Tamás
6:00–6:20 PM
Ferenc Keresztes-Fischer, as the humanist during the deportations: Episodes
Majsai, Tamás
6:20–6:40 PM
"Stateless" Jews in Hungary, 1914-1941
Stark, Tamás
6:40–6:55 PM
Discussion, Comments
Monday, October 13
HUNGARY IN THE FIELD OF SHOAH'S INFLUENCE: HISTORY OF THE JEWS AND ANTI-SEMITISM DURING THE 1930's AND 1940's
09:00–09:20 AM
Jehova’s Witnesses, Nazarenes and Reform Adventists in Hungary and in Bor (Serbia) during the Shoah period
Csapody, Tamás
09:20–09:40 AM
Transition from mass murder to genocide in the occupied Soviet territories in the August of 1941
Gellért, János
09:40–10:00 AM
Jewish classes at Madách Imre High School (September 1939 – April 1944)
Harsányi, Iván
10:00–10:20 AM
From the White Terror to the Shoah. What's the nexus if any?
Karády, Viktor
10:20–10:40 AM
Discussion, comments
10:40–10:50 AM
Intermission
10:50–11:10 AM
The Deportation of emigrant Hungarian Jews in France to Auschwitz, 1942-1944
Karsai, László
11:10–11:30 AM
"From the geography of the contemporary spirit ..."
Kiss, Endre
11:30–11:50 AM
Traces of the fate of a Jewish community during the Holocaust as published in the local press
L. Juhász, Ilona
11:50–12:05 PM
Discussion, comments
12:05–12:20 PM
Intermission
12:20–12:40 PM
Thoughts based on the archival volume "Discrimination emancipation – assimilation discrimination"
Kovács I., Gábor
12:40–1:00 PM
The Hungarian authorities' “Jewish policy” in the Southern Province 1941-1944
Margittai, Linda
1:00–1:20 PM
A Jewish Refugee from Austria Remembers. Hungary 1938-1943
Pfeifer, Karl
1:20–1:35 PM
Discussion, comments
1:35–2:20 PM
Lunch break
THE SHOAH IN OTHER COUNTRIES AND IN UNIVERSAL DIMENSION
2:20–2:40 PM
„Dann bin ich ja ein Mörder!“ Adolf Storms und das Massaker an Juden in Deutsch Schützen im März 1945
("Then I'm certainly a murderer!" Adolf Storms and the massacre of Jews in Deutsch Schützen in March 1945)
Manoschek, Walter
2:40–3:00 PM
Ismail Necdet as a Turkish Diplomat Who Saved Many Jewihs Lives in the Holocaust
Tansi, Deniz
3:00–3:20 PM
European Jewish Intellectuals who had immigrated to Turkey during World War II
Vardi, Recep
3:20–3:35 PM
Discussion, comments
3:35–3:50 PM
Intermission
THE HUNGARIAN "ENDLÖSUNG" of 1944 (I.)
3:50–4:10 PM
Márton Zöldi – The portrait of a perpetrator
Gellért, Ádám
4:10–4:30 PM
The Monor Ghetto and Transit Camp
Klacsmann, Borbála
4:30–4:50 PM
"The strange Mr. Kastner" – A reappraisal of rescue efforts in Holocaust-era Hungary, from an ethics of duress perspective
Sanders, Paul
4:50–5:05 PM
Discussion, comments
5:05–5:20 PM
Intermission
5:20–5:40 PM
Protecting Christian interests? The ghettoization effect on the life of non-Jewish population in the III-rd gendarme district – Szombathely – designated as a ghetto area in 1944
Sulyok, Izabella
5:40–6:00 PM
The Hungarian responsibility
Varga, László
6:00–6:15 PM
Discussion, comments
Tuesday, October 14
SHOAH AND THE CHURCHES
09:20–09:40 AM
"Sanctified" anti-Semitism. Dual holy year; the Eucharistic World Congress and the first anti-Jewish law in Hungary in 1938
Jakab, Attila
09:40–10:00 AM
A Tale of Two Nuncios: Rotta and Roncalli During the Hungarian Holocaust
Temple, Matthew J.
10:00–10:15 AM
Discussion, comments
10:15–10:30 AM
Intermission
THE "ENDLÖSUNG" of 1944 IN HUNGARY (II.)
10:30–10:50 AM
The various stages in the Hungarian Pharrajimos
Bársony János, Dr. – Daróczi, Ágnes
10:50–11:10 AM
Education and the Holocaust. A New Perspective
Baxter, Jeffrey
11:10–11:30 AM
Hungarian Jewish forced laborers in Vienna (1944-1945)
Frojimovics, Kinga – Horváth, Rita – Kovács, Éva
11:30–11:45 AM
Discussion, comments
11:45–12:00
Intermission
SHOAH'S PERCEPTION, POST-HISTORY, ANALYSIS (I.)
12:00–12:20 PM
From mimetic rivalry to scapegoating. István Bibó's Study on "The Jewish Question" Against the Background of René Girard's Theory
Csepregi, András
12:20–12:40 PM
From the children’s folklore to Auschwitz?
Liszka, József
12:40–1:00 PM
Women’s Voices and Perspectives in Personal Narratives about the Holocaust
Pécsi-Pollner, Katalin
1:00–1:20 PM
The literary interpretation of the Shoah trauma in Hungary in the perspective of the remembrance and self-identification processes of the third generation. A German-language example
Vajda, Karl
1:20–1:35 PM
Discussion, comments
1:35–2:10 PM
Lunch break
THE "ENDLÖSUNG" of 1944 IN HUNGARY (III.)
2:10–2:30 PM
The road from Kamenets-Podolsk to Auschwitz in the memoir of Béla Zsolt "Nine Suitcases”
Bojtár, Endre
2:30–2:50 PM
The Patterns of Ghettoization in Hungary, 1944
Csősz, László
2:50–3:10 PM
The Slachta Phenomenon
Szécsi, József
3:10–3:25 PM
Discussion, comments
3:25–3:40 PM
Intermission
SHOAH'S PERCEPTION, POST-HISTORY, ANALYSIS (II.)
3:40–4:00 PM
Panel Discussion: American Students' Reflection on the Holocaust
Quinton Harvey, Mary Lugo (Nazareth College), Micaela LoConte, Rebecca Chinman (Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, NY)
4:00–4:20 PM
The Post-Shoa Orphan Generation on Its Way to Revival
Gombocz, Eszter
4:20–4:40 PM
The sociology of surviving. The groups of Jewish inhabitants of 1941 among the population of Budapest in 1945
Nagy, Péter Tibor
4:40–5:00 PM
The Holocaust in the perspective of public thought
Vásárhelyi, Mária
5:00–5:20 PM
Discussion, comments
5:20–
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Mr. M. Andre Goodfriend, Chargé d'Affaires, Embassy of the United States of America, Budapest
Muhammad Shafiq, Executive Director of the Hickey Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue NC (Rochester, NY)
Tamás Majsai, Dean of the WJLF (Budapest)
6:30–
RECEPTION
hosted by the Embassy of the United States of America and the American-Hungarian Fulbright Commission for the Conference Presenters