films in a new way that considered a specific set of metadata including the country of origin , the temporal span , and a more personal description of the experience , as well as a set of keywords from the UNHCR ’ s Master Glossary of Terms . For copyright reasons , instead of the digitized films themselves , the Archivum added weblinks to publicly available trailers and their original archival catalog entries . All this data was plotted on a map , so the resulting visual geographic catalog offered a correlated map and list view of films on a split screen . Browsing options included the country of origin and specific refugee keywords . The platform offered a more intuitive access to visual stories of refugees and also served as a resource for informing and diversifying public discourse , as well as sensitizing diverse audiences and helping them to establish responsible and morally acceptable approaches to the complex aspects of migration .
7 . Forced inhabitation place or yellow star house for Budapest Jews in Katona József Street 28 . ( 13th district ) | Fortepan / Lissák Tivadar
Unforgetting the Yellow Star Houses
Although its collective focus is on recent history , the Archivum also ventured into topics related to the memory of the Holocaust . In 2004 , it organized a physical and an online exhibition entitled Auschwitz 1945-1989 , which reconstructed the first two official Hungarian communist exhibitions in Auschwitz in 1965 and 1980 , respectively .
Partly building on this experience , the Archivum launched the Yellow Star Houses public history project to reflect on the official Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Year 2014 , which promised controversial events and inaugurations . Another motivation was to honor the memory of the last prewar owner of the Archivum building , the textile industrialist Leó Buday-Goldberger , who was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp , where he died of starvation .
The project memorialized the forced cohabitation of Budapest ’ s 220,000 Jewish citizens in almost 2,000 buildings allocated by mayoral decree , effective of June 21 , 1944 , all of them marked with a large yellow Star of David . This tragic and shameful intermediary stage between being forced to wear the yellow star and later being transferred to the walled ghetto , is hardly mentioned in the history of the Budapest Jewry , and thus barely remembered .
The pivotal element of the project was an interactive map ( available on the EUROM website ) showing the current view and location at street , district , and city level of all existing and demolished yellow star houses . Relevant historical documents obtained from archival research were added to the website , and , where possible , to individual houses , including pertinent decrees , lists of houses , photographs , letters , personal recollections , and video testimonies . These sources are complemented by a timeline of events and a glossary . The platform is open to further recollections from anyone who used to live in the houses .
After the map was launched , the Archivum invited people currently living in all the surviving
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