New Sources on the Fate of Hungarian Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees in Soviet Captivity
October 3, 2023 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM
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In-person
This event took place in-person in seminar room 208N, North House, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto.
Tamas Stark has been exploring questions such as why and how the Soviet authorities rounded up some 700,000 prisoners of war and civilian internees in Hungary to transport them to hundreds of labor camps in the Soviet Union. As a significant development, three years ago, the Hungarian National Archives purchased the digitized version of 682,000 personal documents from the Military Archives of Russia. These files also contained the personal data of Hungarian prisoners. This new source, available online since 2022, has given new impetus to his research. Considering the above, the first topic that he proposed for this presentation is the history of Hungarian prisoners in Soviet labor camps after the Second World War in the light of new Soviet sources.
Speakers
Tamas Stark received his PhD from the Eötvös Loránd University in 1993. From 1983 he was a researcher at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and in 2000 he was appointed a senior research fellow. In 2014 he was Fulbright visiting professor at the Nazareth College in Rochester NY. His specialization is forced population movement in East-Central Europe in the period 1938-1956, with special regard to the history of the Holocaust, the fate of prisoners of war and civilian internees and postwar migrations. Since 2020, he is the chairman of the subcommittee on the History of World War II of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His main publications include: Hungarian Jews During the Holocaust and After the Second World War, 1939–1949; A Statistical Review ( Boulder CO, 2000), Magyar foglyok a Szovjetunióban (Budapest 2006) and „...akkor aszt mondták kicsi robot” – A magyar polgári lakosság elhurcolása a Szovjetunióba korabeli dokumentumok tükrében. (Budapest 2017).
Susan M. Papp was awarded a Ph.D. in Modern European History at the University of Toronto in 2019, specializing in east-central Europe and Holocaust Studies. Dr. Papp is widely published (both scholarly works and historical fiction) in several languages. She is an award-winning documentary filmmaker.
Her dissertation, The Politics of Exclusion in the Hungarian film industry: Jews, Fascists, Communists and the path to Hollywood will be published shortly.
Sponsored by CERES, Hungarian Studies Program, and Hungarian Research Institute of Canada
Co-Sponsor:
Hungarian Studies Program
Co-Sponsor:
Hungarian Research Institute of Canada
Co-Sponsor:
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies