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In light of current research on official amnesia and the remembrance of the Hungarian Holocaust, this article explores the forgetting strategy and memories of the Holocaust in the 1960s, as articulated in the literary public realm and largely forgotten Hungarian female Holocaust memoires and fictional narratives. The first section of this paper demonstrates the articles about the genocide, the compulsion of the remembrance published in the weekly periodical Élet és Irodalom between 1960 and 1968, and raises questions related to memory processes, the issue of the taboo of the genocide, and the traumatized "Jewish" identity in the Hungarian literary public in this period. The second part of the paper focuses on the relationship between the process of memory and remembrance of the Holocaust and the modes of representation in female narratives. It examines Hungarian female testimonies, memoires, fictional works, and docu-fictions that were published by Edith Bruck, Katalin Vidor, Boris Palotai, Elisabeth Senesh, Judit Fenákel and Magda Szabó, all of which confront the Hungarian traumatic past with the present, commemorating the silent victims of the Holocaust. This study argues that these narratives work as forgotten female texts to undermine prevailing public memory and thus can be interpreted as alternative narratives or counter-narratives of the past within a so-called counter-memorial discursive space articulated during the 1960s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]