Carl Lutz and the Legendary Budapest Glass House


Ünnepségek, 2012. április 12. / Ceremonies on April 12, 2012
April 8, 2012, 10:14 pm
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A Kulturális Örökségvédelmi Hivatal,
a Carl Lutz Alapítvány és
a Budapesti Történeti Múzeum
tisztelettel meghívja Önt a

Carl Lutz (1895-1975) emlékére rendezett ünnepségekre


2012. április 12-én

11.00 órakor – Budapest V., Vadász utca 29. előtt: az Üvegház műemléki táblájának felavatására

The National Office of the Cultural Heritage,
the Carl Lutz Foundation, and
the Budapest History Museum
cordially invite you to

The ceremonies held in memory of Carl Lutz (1895-1975)


April 12, 2012

At 11 a.m. – Budapest 5th District, in front of 29 Vadász Street: the inauguration of the Historical Monument Plaque of the Glass House

Carl Lutz (1895-1975)

Az Üvegház a 30-as években / The Glass House in the 1930s

Az Üvegház a 30-as években / The Glass House in the 1930s


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14.00 órakor – Budapest I., Táncsics Mihály utca 1. (a Kulturális Örökségvédelmi Hivatal székháza) előtt:
emléktábla elhelyezése az egykori brit követség épületén, amely 1942-1945 között Carl Lutz lakhelye volt

At 2 p.m. – Budapest 1st district, in front of 1 Táncsics Mihály Street (Headquarters of the National Office of the Cultural Heritage):
placement of a Memorial Plaque to the building of the former Legation of Great Britain, which was Carl Lutz’s residency from 1942 to 1945

A brit követség romjai, 1945 / The ruins of the British legation, 1945

A brit követség romjai, 1945 / The ruins of the British legation, 1945


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15.00 órakor – a Budapesti Történeti Múzeum Vármúzeuma (1014 Budapest, Szent György tér 2., Budavári Palota E épület) Barokk Csarnokában:
„Egy svájci diplomata Budapesten, Carl Lutz fényképei 1942-1949”
című kiállítás megnyitására.

At 3 p.m. – in the Baroque Hall of the Castle Museum of the Budapest History Museum (H-1014, 2 Szent György Square, Building E, Royal Palace, Buda Castle):
the opening of the exhibition
“A Swiss Diplomat in Budapest, Photographs of Carl Lutz 1942-1949”

Az Erzsébet híd Budapest ostroma előtt és után / The Elisabeth Bridge before and after the siege of Budapest

Az Erzsébet híd Budapest ostroma előtt és után / The Elisabeth Bridge before and after the siege of Budapest



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Látogassa meg honlapjainkat / Visit our websites:

www.uveghaz.org
www.koh.hu
www.btm.hu



Koszorúzás, 2011. július 24., 10:00/Wreath Ceremony, July 24, 2011, 10 a.m.
July 18, 2011, 8:08 pm
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A Carl Lutz Alapítvány az Üvegház megnyitásának évfordulóján

2011. július 24-én délelőtt 10.00 órakor

 a belvárosi Vadász utca 29. számú ház

homlokzatán elhelyezett emléktábláknál koszorúzási ünnepséget tart az embermentő Carl Lutz svájci alkonzul és a cionista ellenállási mozgalom, valamint az üvegházi mártírok: Weiss Arthur, Scheiber Lajosné, Dénes Iván, Fenákel Jónás, Fürst Kálmán, Hunwald Sándor és Schwartz Ármin tiszteletére.

 Beszédet mond Sándor Iván Kossuth díjas író.

 A megemlékezésre tisztelettel meghívjuk.

 Üdvözlettel

Vámos György

a kuratórium elnöke
On the anniversary of the opening of the Glasshouse
On July 24, 2011, 10 a.m.
At the plaques on the facade of the downtown house, 29. Vadász Street
the Carl Lutz Foundation hold a wreath ceremony in honour of the rescuer, Carl Lutz, the Zionist Resistance Movement,
and the Martyrs of the Glasshouse: Arthur Weiss, Lajosné Scheiber, Iván Dénes, Jónás Fenákel, Kálmán Fürst,
Sándor Hunwald, and Ármin Schwartz.
The Kossuth-Prize winner writer, Iván Sándor deliver a speech.
We cordially invite you to the commemoration.
Yours sincerely,
György Vámos
President of the Board

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Emléktábla avatás, 2011. április 14., 10:00/Inauguration of Memorial Plaque, April 14, 2011, 10 a.m.

Tisztelettel meghívjuk Önt és kedves barátait Sampaio Garrido követ és Carlos Branquinho ügyvivő emléktáblájának avatására.

Az ünnepség keretében a XIII. Kerületi Önkormányzat és a Carl Lutz Alapítvány emléktábla állításával emlékezik meg a két portugál diplomatáról, akik több száz zsidó üldözöttet mentettek meg a vészkorszak idején.

 

Helyszín: 1133 Budapest, Újpesti rakpart 5. (térképet ld. lent)

Időpont: 2011. április 14., csütörtök 10:00

 

We cordially invite you and your friends to the inauguration of the Memorial Plaque to Sampaio Garrido, late Portugal minister in Hungary and Carlos Branquinho, late chargé d’affaires in Hungary.

In the course of the ceremony the Local Government of the 13th District of Budapest and the Carl Lutz Foundation, Budapest commemorate commemorate the two Portugal diplomats, who saved hundreds of persecuted Jews during the Hungarian Holocaust.

 

H-1133 5 Újpest Quay, Budapest (see map below)

Thursday, April 14, 2011, 10 a.m.

Meghivó/Invitation Card


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Kérjük, segítse a Carl Lutz Alapítvány munkáját!/Please, help the work of the Carl Lutz Foundation
March 2, 2011, 9:02 am
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Kedves Barátunk!

Kérjük, támogasd alapítványunk közérdekű munkáját!

Személyi jövedelemadód 1 %-a számunkra nagy segítség a honlapunk megújításához.

A Carl Lutz Alapítvány adószáma: 18113499-1-41

Köszönettel

Vámos György

____________________________________________________________________________________________

Dear Friend!

Please, help our work of public utility!

1% of your Hungarian personal income tax or other donation could be a great help to renew our website.

The tax number of the Carl Lutz Foundation:

18113499-1-41

Thank You Very Much!

György Vámos



The Exhibition in Palm Springs
March 8, 2010, 2:13 pm
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On January 27, 2010, on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day the traveling exhibition of the Carl Lutz Foundation was on display in Temple Isaiah of Palm Springs. The Opening Ceremony was attended by Balázs Bokor, Consul General of Hungary and he delivered a speech. He emphasized that “the sound of silent may be grievous” that’s why we had to lift up our voice so that the sins of the past wouldn’t be able to happen again. Bruno Ryff, Consul General of Switzerland stressed that Carl Lutz who made a stand for a just cause is an icon for the present-day diplomats. The cooperation of Carl Lutz and Zionist Resistance saved many lives in Budapest in 1944.

(2010 January Newsletter of Teple Isaiah, Palm Springs – PDF)



Newest News IV.

Dear Visitor,

You are welcome on our website in the second month of the second decade in the third millennium. This is the ball season and we hope you got your Valentine’s Day gift. We also hope that you have time to read the newest news on the Memorial Room and look around a bit.
Two weeks ago tour guides of the Hidden Treasure Tours Ltd. visited the Memorial Room. Special thanks to Emőke Szövérfi for managing the visit. The tour guides were good and inquiring tourists. They raised many questions and tried to learn more and more details about the topic. We hope they will come back with tourists soon.
Some days ago Prof. Paul Lendvai and Zsóka Lendvai also visited the exhibition. They said that more people would have known it. We will do our best in order to reach this goal.
We would like to ask you, Dear Visitor, what your opinion is, what you want to see on our website. More history, more memoirs or something else? Please, send a message to us in the virtual Guestbook!
Thank you very much for your visit!



Newest News III.

New month has come. New year has come. New decade has come. We hope that everybody is out of “festive food-poisoning” and can lose weight during the year. Till then, please read our news.

Every Visitor is important to the Carl Lutz Foundation – it was established in order to show bravery and heroism in a dark age, and, at the same time, the background of the events –, however, it is always special to greet people from Switzerland in the Memorial Room. In a month’s time we could do it twice. Four young girls came in December, and a kind couple with a small child visited us last week. We hope that they found the exhibition appropriate for the purpose above.

There are two new Pages on this website: Guestbook Quotes and Historical Quotes. The Carl Lutz Foundation is grateful to all Visitors who have visited the Memorial Room since 2005. It would like to express its appreciation to them by a selection – because of the great number – of the Guestbook Notes. Because of practical reasons there are mainly the Hungarian and the English texts. This is anonym excepting people from public life.

The Historical Quotes is planned to make more colourful the picture on our topic with short quotes from that time. It is planned to be a selection of quotes from known and less known people in Hungarian and in English. We hope, you will find them interesting.

We wish a happy beginning in the New Year to everyone!



Hanukkah in the Glass House, 1944 I.

„Hanukkah was approaching. The spiritual leaders of the house, rabbis and teachers, tried to make an evening or two become holiday in spite of the hard situation. Though the mood was depressed, bombs fluttered around the Vadász utca, it was dangerous enough to make a stay in the assembly room upstairs, many were curious about the evening holiday. The holiday was introduced by the traditional candles lightning, then doctor Richtmann’s sermon came.

The audience in the assembly room listened to his words fighting against their tears and soundlessly. You might see the piety of the festive hour what they didn’t feel a long time ago. Then Teri Gács, the excellent poetess came. Or rather she would have come, but, even then, when she wanted to begin reciting one of her ad hoc poems – The List 7800 –, a bomb fell to the firewall of the next house with great noise. The Glass House trembled, a huge amount of plaster streamed from the ceiling to the necks of the audience.

I wasn’t at home, I came back late at night from the Szabadság square. Some good friends led by Arthur Weiss waited for me in the small room. In the corner some nutshells, oil and wicks in each, were lined up on a stick which was put on a chair. One by one I lit the small oil lamps. I will never forget that holiday feeling what descended upon us, and I will even less forget the dinner what my wife made on this occasion. She took out some potato lángos from the pot under the table which I didn’t know how she had fried, and, especially, from what she had fried. Especially as that there wasn’t any potato in the Glass House since months. There was a little fat on the cold lángos. I never eat so delicious potato lángos since then.”

(from the book of Mihály Salamon: “Keresztény” voltam Európában. [I was a "Christian" in Europe])



Newest News II.

Another month passed away. What is more, the third millennium has just begun and the first decade will soon expire. The holiday season has come.

Let us inform you, Dear Visitor, during or before these great days what happened in the Memorial Room. It was, namely, visited by many interesting people from many countries, and there were many interesting conversations. A family came, for example, from Israel, and both of the husband and his wife had relations with the Glass House – it turned out accidentally some years ago. A pair came from Denmark was very well-informed on Hungarian history and told us interesting information. Other dear visitors came from Scotland, Canada, the United States of America, France, Germany, Italy, and, naturally, Hungary.

At the end of November a group of pensioners and librarians from the Thirteenth District of Budapest visited the Memorial Room. The President of the Carl Lutz Foundation, Mr. György Vámos held a lecture on the history of the Glass House and the role of Carl Lutz. It was followed by a conversation. The audience was very intense and they had many questions. The meeting was mutually instructive. It turned out again that it would be very important to record the memoirs of the older age-groups – until we can.

On the same day three visitors came from Germany and brought good news. A new film will be made on the rescue action in Budapest. We hope their work will be successful.

Some words about our work generally. We contacted hundreds of secondary schools in the hope that we can cooperate with them. The Foundation plans to open a new page here for quotations from the Guestbook of the exhibition in the Memorial Room. Besides, the Foundation continues to search for partners in order to make exhibitions, programs or events of commemoration. We hope that you will visit us, our websites and/or our exhibitions personally and/or virtually.

Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!



Christmas 65 years before
December 10, 2009, 4:18 pm
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The winter of 1944/45 wasn’t an age of peace, happiness and love. Millions were in arms in Europe and the Far-East. Some parts of the world were waking up from the hell of the war, and some parts were waiting for the fulfillment of their fate.

Budapest, the capital of Hungary became a battlefield. It was decided that it would be sacrificed on the altar of the war – as Leningrad, Stalingrad or Warsaw were. The operations on Hungarian territory began in September, but the Soviet Army encircled Budapest only during the Holidays.

Hundreds of thousands listened to the sounds of arms as the front approached their homes. Tens of thousands were crowded in the Last Ghetto of Europe in Budapest. Thousands and thousands of people had to hide.

The Christmas candles were the bullets. The silent nights were loud because of the artilleries, guns and cannons. The “holiday dinner” was overshadowed by the fear that they would run out of food, water and other supplies.

The people were waiting for the future with fear and doubtfulness and hope of survival. The latter would have been the greatest present for them. We hope that we, our contemporaries and successors never have to live through anything like that.

We must never forget what was happened then. And we mustn’t let it happen again. All the people have the right to live in peace, happiness and love.

We wish a Happy Hanukkah, a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays every people in the World!




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