On 27 JANUARY 2014 the Open Society Archives (OSA) in Budapest launched a Hungarian-language interactive website and a bilingual Facebook page dedicated to the history of Budapest's ‘yellow-star houses’ and the reception of this history. The yellow-star houses were residential buildings, distributed across the capital, into which Budapest's Jews were concentrated in preparation for their deportation. OSA used mapping technology and social media and invited people to share their stories, photographs, and documents about the houses and the families who lived in them. OSA further invited the public, public institutions, and several embassies to hold commemorations outside the former yellow-star houses on 21 June 2014, the seventieth anniversary of the forced mass relocation.

In this chapter I shall discuss the establishment of the yellow-star houses in 1944, the methodology of OSA's project, and the bitter political environment in which it took place and present the corpus of testimonies received by OSA as a unique collection of oral histories that sheds light not only on what life was like in a yellow-star house but also on how the Holocaust was generally not spoken about from the late 1940s until the mid-1980s, either in public or in private.