Delta-haggadah is a unique venture: a Gulag-narrative, fiction, factual literature, a picture book, and an art book.
Family memory often carries the traumas of several generations – imprints of a history that interrupt the continuity of common remembrance. Silence swallows up stories that are difficult to tell, but trauma and persecution might take on the form of a family myth which make the process of passing on, easier. Silence, unfinished sentences, legends, a few objects, photos – this is what the one who remembers receives.
History does not provide a sufficient explanatory frame for our family histories. As an aftermath of the revolution in Hungary in 1956, the wave of imprisonments reached the family of a pastor which had been under observation by the authorities for a long time. Their communal life-style was considered a threat against the state, so the father was sentenced to twenty-two years in prison and the mother was sent into exile, together with their seven children.
