Аннотация:In this article I explore two Hungarian Holocaust documentaries made under János Kádár’s regime, László Nádasy’s Eva A 5116 (1964) and Gyula Gazdag’s Package Tour (1985) focusing on their representation of personal and collective trauma. I examine the psychological consequences of time elapsed since the traumatic event, and the changing representational strategies of filmmaking affected by the actual politics of memory and the dominant documentary paradigm. The main motif of both films is travel, which serves as the medium of remembrance. The journeys into the past after 20 and 40 years since the deportations resulted in different cultural interpretations of the trauma of the Holocaust. Whereas in the 1960s travel stood for a haunting return of the traumatic event, in the 1980s it induces a deliberate confrontation with the past.
