Naming no Shaming  
 

Action on the Danube at Budapest, 25th July 2006 at 18 hours

Documented with photographs by Istvan Javor

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25th July 2006 at 18 hours in Budapest, next to the Holocaust memorial "Iron Shoes on the Shores of the Danube" and its official plaques, a small group of 15 Budapest Hungarians, Rabbi Tamas Vero, who said a prayer and myself, set a small, unofficial plaque with the wording:
"In memory of the Jewish citizens who were shot into the Danube by Hungarian fascists in 1944."

 

I visited Budapest for the first time in June 2006 (to prepare for my exhibition at the Tüzrakter Independent Cultural Centre 26th July - 9th August). Katalin Pecsi of the Holocaust Memorial Centre showed me the "Iron Shoes" and told me of Judy Cohen's vain efforts to have the plaque's omissions officially rectified, but the glaring absence of the victims' names was something that I felt had to be dealt with immediately, if not unofficially. I decided to initiate the action Naming no Shaming, the setting of a plaque identifying the victims.

Tanya Ury

 
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