{"id":14705,"date":"2015-10-23T12:27:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T10:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meonline.hu\/?p=14705"},"modified":"2015-10-27T22:16:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T21:16:47","slug":"az-emlekezes-falai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meonline.hu\/en\/archivum\/az-emlekezes-falai\/","title":{"rendered":"Walls of Commemoration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comparing the Memorial Wall of the Budapest Ghetto and the Holocaust Memorial Site of Debrecen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Text: Gerda Sz\u00e9plaky<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The wall is one of the leitmotifs of memorial architecture which evidently hosts a variety of forms expressing commemoration verbally and visually. Wall monuments tend to be sculpture-like objects standing in the middle of a vacant square and their essence lies in their character: ultimately reduced into an architectural lacking the complicated structures of architectural spatial organisation, they inspire us to powerfully react regarding commemoration and aesthetics. Two monuments have been inaugurated in Hungary recently which can be rated as \u201ebordering walls\u201d: one in Budapest, the other in Debrecen. Both were erected to honour the Memorial Year (2014) of the Holocaust. Designed by P\u00e9ter Sug\u00e1r, the memorial wall of the Budapest Ghetto was built in Doh\u00e1ny Street Budapest whilst the Holocaust Memorial Site \u2013 designed by Marianna Nagy, P\u00e9ter Kov\u00e1cs and P\u00e9ter Sug\u00e1r \u2013 is in P\u00e1sti Street Debrecen. The primary reference for the wall symbolism was the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem in both cases. It is also formative considering the pattern of the primary relations in the people commemorating: it is associated with mourning and wailing. Following the line of the former fence of the ghetto in Budapest, the memorial wall stands right in the street whilst the one in Debrecen was erected in the yard of the synagogue, and as a result, it is closed for and hidden from outsiders.<\/p>\n

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Memorial Wall of the Budapest Ghetto<\/strong><\/p>\n

Architect: P\u00e9ter Sug\u00e1r <\/strong>
\nPhotos: Rudolf Klein <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t