In the early part of 2001, the memorial plaque commemorating the foundation of the Committee for Historical Justice was installed in the same house in which the formal constitution took place at the beginning of 1988. The plaque was initiated by the Municipal District Administration Belváros-Lipotváros together with the Foundation for the Commemoration of the 1956 Revolution. The black slab made of polished concrete bears an inscription dedicated to the occurrence and shows the coat-of-arms of the Budapest Municipal District Administration Belváros-Lipotváros (5th Municipal District). At the onset of the 1980's, a critical reception dealing with the history of the 1965 Revolution began clandestinely in civilian circles, which had been officially classified as a counterrevolutionary event. Around 1981, a small group of former participants in the revolt as well as young scientists began to organise an Oral History Archive containing the testimonies of contemporaries. The first lists commemorating victims of the Revolution began circulating in the mid-1980's in the form of „Samiszdat“ publications. In 1986, it was possible for the group to operate on a partially legal basis, using the Institute for Educational Research as its base. During the same year, the first semi-official conference was held on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Revolution, for which participants from all sectors of the Hungarian opposition and resistance movement were able to be mobilised. In the coming years, initial contact was established with historical witnesses and researchers, who had emigrated to the west and who affirmed the need for a re-evaluation of the historical events. Their main focus was the rehabilitation of condemned and stigmatized figures who had led the uprising, Imre Nagy above all. Nonetheless, remembering all the numerous victims, and facilitating this, was viewed as a central public concern. For this purpose, the Committee for Historical Justice was founded in the early part of 1988. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the execution of Imre Nagy, the Committee published an appeal demanding the rehabilitation of those executed, their dignified burial, as well as a re-revaluation of recent historical occurrences and the release of the appropriate source materials required to undertake independent historical research. During the coming months, the Committee and its members played an important role. Especially the ceremonies surrounding the official burial of Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter, Miklós Gimes and Géza Lozsoncy on June 16, 1989 were chiefly a merit of this organisation. In 1991, the Committee for Historical Jus gave rise to the Institute for the Research of the 1956 Revolution and Fight for Freedom (the „1956 Institute“).