As part of the Budapest Jewish Festival program, our exhibition is presented exceptionally along the moving Shoes Memorial, on the banks of the Danube, next to the Hungarian Parliament.
The exhibition of the Carl Lutz Society was opened in partnership with the U.S. State Department and the Embassy of Switzerland in Hungary. With a keynote speech by the President of the Lantos Foundation and f. Chairwoman of the Commission on International Religious Freedom of the U.S. Congress (USCIRF), coming from the United States, and the Director of the Holocaust Memorial Center of Budapest (HDKE).
The day continued with a meeting in the “Carl Lutz Room” of the U.S. Embassy in Hungary.
The opening concluded with an invitation to the graduation ceremony of the Andrassy University of Budapest, which annually awards the “Carl Lutz scholarship” to students in international relations.
See the dedicated page : Budapest, 2022