Violence against remembrance
While numerous new statues of Governor Miklós Horthy have been recently inaugurated, the statue of Miklós Radnóti – a Hungarian Roman Catholic poet of Jewish origin who was a victim of the Holocaust –was destroyed and his books burnt. The man who drove his car into Radnóti’s statue in Győr states that it was an accident due to his drunkenness. It is somewhat difficult to believe that his driving while being drunk exactly in the vicinity of Radnóti’s martyrdom particularly during these days was a mere coincidence. However, the presumption of innocence is due unto him. Regarding the burning of Radnóti’s books, a Nazi group explicitly takes the responsibility. Heinrich Heine postulated in the 19 th century that "where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings" (" Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen "). Indeed, historical experience shows that the act of book-burning (biblioclasm or libricide) is rather...
