New museum and library is being built on site of former internment camp

The government is allocating 500 million forints for building a museum and library on the site of a former internment camp in Kistarcsa, near Budapest, a ministry of human resources official said on Tuesday.

The memorial site, to be completed by autumn 2018, is being built as part of the Gulag memorial year, said deputy state secretary Bence Rétvári.

The site of a defunct factory in the centre of town was used as an internment camp from the late 1930s to 1960. During the second world war, Adolf Eichmann organised the detention and transport of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz from the camp. After the downfall of the 1956 revolution, several thousand political prisoners were kept there in inhumane conditions, Rétvári noted.

Rétvári called upon citizens to share memories and offer objects connected to the camp to the museum.

As we wrote before, the reconstruction works in the area of the legendary Eger castle gets into a new phase, also the second and third phase of the Castle of Diósgyőr’s renewal received the final permission.

Source: MTI