{"id":391,"date":"2025-04-05T09:02:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T07:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lagernaplok.abtk.hu\/?page_id=391"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:52:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:52:30","slug":"virtualis-kiallitas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lagernaplok.abtk.hu\/en\/virtualis-kiallitas\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The S\u00f6mmerda Camp Diaries<\/h1>\n

One of the subcamps of the Buchenwald concentration camp was located in S\u00f6mmerda, Th\u00fcringia, where 1,300 Hungarian Jewish women were deported in September 1944. Some of the women began to create and write diaries, an activity that developed into part of a lively cultural life. While it was not uncommon for prisoners to create opportunities for creative forms of expression as part of the strategy for spiritual survival in a context of scarce resources, it is perhaps unique in the history of the Holocaust, not only in Hungary but also in Europe, that a diary-writing community should leave behind 29 small books of their own making. Despite their historical value, the S\u00f6mmerda camp diaries are mainly unknown. This virtual exhibition aims to help eradicate this ignorance.<\/p>\n

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The under-representation of the history of the Holocaust in Hungary may be observed not only by those who follow the international historiographical discourse and browse through the published books and sources, but also by those who visit the exhibitions of Holocaust museums and memorial sites around the world. There are many reasons why Hungary, the country in Europe from where the third most victims died in the Holocaust, has not received the attention it deserves in relation to its tragic historical weight. The long-standing Western European dominance of Holocaust discourse, the linguistic barriers to understanding Hungarian sources for non-Hungarian-speaking researchers, and the belated and partial integration of Hungarian research into international trends have all contributed to this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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In Europe, geographically asymmetrical knowledge of the Holocaust has developed. The vast majority of victims, around 90%, were Jews from Eastern and Central Europe. Almost all of the key sites of mass murder (with the exception of places such as Dachau, Mauthausen, and Bergen-Belsen), where tens or even hundreds of thousands of Jewish victims died, are located in Eastern Europe. Yet much more is known about the persecution of Jews in Western Europe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At the heart of the image of the Holocaust in Western Europe is Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was not only a death camp but also a forced labor camp, whose survivors were largely Western European Jews. After the Second World War, survivors on this side of the Iron Curtain were free to write and publish, unlike survivors in Eastern Europe who, in addition to being silenced by their traumas, suffered repression and censorship by the Communist regime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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