Abstract
From 2010, right-wing populist Fidesz has been under international pressure to comply with written and unwritten laws, including those related to Holocaust remembrance. This chapter discusses a paradigm change in Holocaust memorialization within illiberal polypore state formations. It also discusses two elements of this paradigm change in detail: nationalization and de-Judaization in relation to conservatism. The disturbing anti-intellectual attacks against the legitimacy of science are also a part of the paradigm change, which differentiates illiberal polyporism from conservatism. The Holocaust narrative that was conceived during the Cold War elevated the moral command of “Never Again” into a measure of universal integrity. According to the new Hungarian, national memory paradigm Holocaust memory is not a constant flux but something that can and should be closed down permanently. While stressing the suffering of the nation as such this new paradigm effectively de-Judaizes the Holocaust narrative as it makes Jewish victims invisible and their experiences marginal.
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