ABSTRACT
In discussing the peculiar problem of Jewish identity in a country like the interwar and wartime Hungary – which contributed to killing around half a million Hungarian citizens – this call for a fuller vision toward approaching the event of the Holocaust aims to be an important observation worth pursuing. Among the topics which have been discussed in dealing with memorialisation practices, one of the most important is the official memory of the past. This is true of Holocaust memory studies internationally as well in Hungary. An issue concerns the relationship between the collected and collective memory of the Jewish and non-Jewish victims of World War II. The first signs of creating a public Holocaust discourse in Hungary appeared as late as the 1960s in the form of some artistic representations. The Holocaust in Hungary, affecting the Jewish and Roma Gypsy populations, accounts for most of the casualties caused by the war.
