Date: August 30, 2023 – 6:00 PM
Location: 1097 Budapest, Fék utca 6.
Lenght: ~ 90 minutes

The permanent exhibition site of the Hungarian National Museum "The Circles of Hell ... Malenki Robot - Forced Labor in the Soviet Union" commemorates the massive displacement of women and men after the Second World War. The nuclear-proof building at the Ferencváros Railway Station used to be a civil defence centre for the Hungarian State Railroads. Today the national Malenki Robot Memorial is located here.

Hungary was in ruins after the German invasion in 1944 and the Arrow Cross (Hungarian Nazi) period. However, after the destruction of the war and the Holocaust affecting millions of people, the Soviet Red Army set a new challenge for the population. During the war and right after it thousands of Hungarian civilians fell into Soviet captivity and were transported to the Soviet Union, where the primary goal was not to destroy the prisoners, but make them help rebuild the country destroyed in the war. After the arrival of the Red Army in Hungary, many camps were created for prisoners of war, from which prisoners were continuously transported to various parts of the Soviet Union, to a participate in a „malenki robot” (a distorted Hungarian version of the original Russian expression „malenkaya rabota”, literally meaning „small work”). The exhibition presents the last days of WW II in Hungary, the painful everyday life of those experiencing forced labor and the bittersweet moments of homecoming through photographs, posters, memoirs by survivors.  

Booking and additional informations:
The bunker can be visited only after registration: malenkij@mnm.hu
The bunker is not accessible to disabled persons.

Ticket price: 2800 HUF
You can pay for the ticket in cash in the bunker.
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