Living Memorial

Several hundreds of these “moderated discussion circles” have thus taken place since March 2014. They are to sustainably prevent the inauguration of a memorial that denies Hungary’s complicity in crimes committed during the Nazi occupation and they are to keep discussions about them alive. Other localities with dubious monuments are also occupied, temporarily, and debates are held there. Another issue is to talk about history – family history and national history, forever afresh, with ever changing participants. “Living Memorial” has proven pretty tenacious. Self-organised perpetual debates have themselves turned into monuments – of a rather innovative kind – in the public sphere. And they mean to spread…