April 2024 Portrait of the Month — László Kiss
László Kiss
In January 2014, Memory Project founders Roz Jacobs and Laurie Weisman traveled to Budapest, Hungary to launch The Memory Project exhibit and workshops at the Hungarian Jewish Archives. To make the workshop more meaningful to the participants there, 16 Hungarian subjects were added to the Memory Project photo archives. They were selected by our partners at the Archives and the Zachor Foundation for Social Remembrance and include Jewish, homosexual and Roma victims of the Holocaust. One of the subjects was László Kiss, who was born in Székesfehérvár, Hungary, about 40 miles outside of Budapest where the workshop was held.
Bringing the exhibit and workshop to Hungary felt especially significant because the Hungarian government has tried to suppress Holocaust history and the role it played. This program honored the stories of Jews in Hungary before and during the Holocaust, and also fostered an interest in modern Jewish culture. László’s family lived a happy and vibrant life in their home country before the Holocaust. By 1945, only László had survived. Read more about him below.
