Monday, August 26, 2019
Hungary’s Orban hopes a rabbi can save his country’s controversial new Holocaust museum
The carcass of a dead pigeon lay rotting inside a sculptural Star of David tunnel at Hungary’s new Holocaust museum. Spiders had colonized the stairwells of the empty complex.
Construction of the $23 million museum, known as the House of Fates, was completed three years ago. But controversy has stalled its opening.
Initially, a Hungarian official spoke of a museum that would highlight the “story of love between Hungarian Jews and non-Jews. A love that has survived everything. As a result of which, there is still a large Hungarian Jewish community living in this country.”
The premise was decried as Holocaust revisionism by historians and museum professionals worldwide.
And so, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has called on Slomo Koves, a rabbi affiliated with the Hasidic Chabad movement, to direct and reimagine the project.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/hungarys-orban-has-asked-a-rabbi-to-take-over-a-stalled-holocaust-museum-many-jews-still-fear-a-whitewash/2019/08/25/9f9d0e1a-b78e-11e9-8e83-4e6687e99814_story.html?noredirect=on
Construction of the $23 million museum, known as the House of Fates, was completed three years ago. But controversy has stalled its opening.
Initially, a Hungarian official spoke of a museum that would highlight the “story of love between Hungarian Jews and non-Jews. A love that has survived everything. As a result of which, there is still a large Hungarian Jewish community living in this country.”
The premise was decried as Holocaust revisionism by historians and museum professionals worldwide.
And so, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has called on Slomo Koves, a rabbi affiliated with the Hasidic Chabad movement, to direct and reimagine the project.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/hungarys-orban-has-asked-a-rabbi-to-take-over-a-stalled-holocaust-museum-many-jews-still-fear-a-whitewash/2019/08/25/9f9d0e1a-b78e-11e9-8e83-4e6687e99814_story.html?noredirect=on
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