The Forgotten Massacre

Titel: The Forgotten Massacre : Budapest in 1944
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Veröffentlicht: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter ; De Gruyter Oldenbourg [Imprint], 2021
Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (189 p.)
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9783110687484 ; 9783110687552 ; 9783110687590 ; 9783111095097
  • List of Acronyms
  • p. xi
  • 1
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • 1.1
  • The reasons for forgetting
  • p. 7
  • 2
  • What makes Csengery 64 important?
  • p. 13
  • 3
  • The House
  • p. 20
  • 4
  • Piroska Dely in Budapest
  • p. 26
  • 4.1
  • Her biography
  • p. 27
  • 4.2
  • Her trial
  • p. 28
  • 4.2.1
  • The People's Tribunals
  • p. 28
  • 4.2.2
  • Between sloppiness and rigor: The People's Tribunals' activity
  • p. 33
  • 4.2.3
  • Piroska Dely in front of the People's Tribunal
  • p. 35
  • 4.2.4
  • Was she present at all?
  • p. 38
  • 4.2.5
  • Changing explanations
  • p. 40
  • 4.2.6
  • The power objects: The Arrow Cross armband and the weapon
  • p. 46
  • 4.2.7
  • The power of "executive power"
  • p. 47
  • 4.2.8
  • The endgame
  • p. 49
  • 5
  • Death and the Maiden
  • p. 51
  • 5.1
  • Those who speak for the dead
  • p. 53
  • 5.1.1
  • Why were they killed? The "Jewish resistance" version
  • p. 55
  • 5.1.2
  • Why were they killed? The Széplaki version
  • p. 57
  • 5.2
  • Murders at night
  • p. 58
  • 5.2.1
  • The Strucky version
  • p. 59
  • 5.2.2
  • The Steiner version
  • p. 61
  • 5.3
  • What happened to the dead?
  • p. 63
  • 6
  • The Perpetrators
  • p. 65
  • 6.1
  • The janitors' greed
  • p. 66
  • 6.2
  • The collaborating projectionist, translator, courier, driver, SS-soldier, and father
  • p. 69
  • 6.3
  • The verdict
  • p. 73
  • 6.4
  • The truth of the perpetrators' memories
  • p. 76
  • 6.5
  • The Szamocseta story - As told by them
  • p. 78
  • 7
  • The Greed
  • p. 82
  • 7.1
  • The birth of wealth
  • p. 83
  • 7.2
  • The loss of wealth
  • p. 87
  • 8
  • Revenge and Forgiveness
  • p. 90
  • 8.1
  • The frameworks of justice
  • p. 90
  • 8.2
  • Moral witness or political witness?
  • p. 92
  • 8.3
  • The affect of testimony
  • p. 94
  • 9
  • The Survivors and the Surviving Memories
  • p. 98
  • 9.1
  • Taking an inventory
  • p. 99
  • 9.2
  • In defense of the right to memory
  • p. 101
  • 9.3
  • The missing dialogic collective memory
  • p. 104
  • 9.4
  • Csengery Street 64: A memorial or a monument?
  • p. 109
  • 10
  • Conclusion
  • p. 111
  • References
  • p. 118
  • Archival Sources
  • p. 128
  • List of Interviews
  • p. 128
  • Manuscripts
  • p. 129
  • Appendix 1
  • The chronology of Piroska Dely's trial, its background and afterlife
  • p. 130
  • Appendix 2
  • The Chronology of the Szamocseta Case
  • p. 139
  • Appendix 3
  • The story of the Csengery Street massacre
  • p. 148
  • Appendix 4
  • Persilschein
  • p. 159
  • Appendix 5
  • Tenant registry
  • p. 161
  • Appendix 6
  • The text of the memory plaque
  • p. 170
  • Appendix 7
  • The victims of the Csengery Street massacre
  • p. 171
  • Appendix 8
  • Petition for the Csengery Street commemorative plaque
  • p. 174
  • Appendix 9
  • Interview with the son of Nandor Szamocseta
  • p. 176
  • Appendix 10
  • List of illustrations
  • p. 178
  • Index of Names
  • p. 179
  • Index of Subjects
  • p. 182