Psychologist; organizer of Schedule 1944 and Silent Remembrance

 

 

Her professional and civic activities are characterized by attentive presence, cooperation, and the responsibility of remembrance. As a psychologist, she strengthened professional teamwork serving the multifaceted support of children, and as a civic organizer, she has been consistently working for more than a decade to commemorate the deportation of rural Hungarian Jews.

She has worked as a psychologist since 1994, and between 2004 and 2009 she was the head of the Váci Educational Consulting Center. Under her leadership, speech therapists, developmental educators, psychologists and other professionals worked together to find the best ways to support individual children.

Since 2014, she has been organizing the annual series of commemorations entitled Schedule 1944, which lasts for several weeks, in Budapest's Szabadság Square, together with history teacher Gyula Hosszú and others. The program follows the events from the anniversary of the first deportation trains of rural Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 14, to the last day of the deportations, July 9. From the beginning, she was one of the driving forces behind the organization, initiating the invitation of historians, artists, cantors, and Holocaust survivors, including Éva Fahidi.

During the coronavirus pandemic, in 2021, she organized virtual commemorations, which were also joined by survivors living abroad. She created a social media group called Silent Remembrance, where she recalls the history of the deportations day by day, between May 14 and July 9 each year, with documents, images, and texts. In this way, she creates a connection between personal and digital remembrance, and involves a broad community in learning about and passing on the history of the Holocaust.