79 memorials in the collection
A plaque located under the arcades of the building at the corner of Victory Street (ul. Zwycięstwa) and Jan Matejko Street commemorates the solidarity shown by the residents of Gliwice with the Hungarian Revolution.
Commemorative plaque dedicated to Danish diplomat Povl Bang Jensen, a martyr of the 1956 events.
The monument was erected at the initiative of György Gemer on September 3, 2005, to mark the 100th anniversary of the province of Alberta. György Gemer was born in Felsőgöd and, after spending five years as a Soviet prisoner of war...
In October 1986, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence, the first 1956 commemorative plaque in Eastern Europe was unveiled at St. Christopher’s Parish Church in Podkowa Leśna.
The 1956 memorial in Berehove/Beregszász was unveiled on November 17, 2016, to mark the 60th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence.
Originally in Freese Park in 1966, it was generously moved by the City of Norwalk to The Heritage Wall in 1986. The bronze inlay on marble is designed by Lajos Szalay.
The memorial plaque serves as a tribute to the university students who fled to Switzerland and to the Swiss community that welcomed them.
In 1956, at the request of István Muzslay, a Jesuit priest living in Belgium, the rector of the Catholic University of Leuven, Msgr. Honoré Van Waeyenberg, made the Collegium Falconis building available to Hungarian refugee students for five years; accommodations for the Hungarian students were set up on the second floor.
The stamp shown on the plaque, bearing the inscription “Szczecin-Csepel” and depicting two workers’ hands clasped together, symbolically expressed support for the workers of Csepel. On November 1, 1956, a honor guard was formed at the Szczecin University of Technology, and the Polish and Hungarian flags were raised.
Every year, a wreath is laid here as part of the city’s commemoration. The memorial plaque honors the Transylvanian victims of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence, as well as those persecuted by the communist dictatorship.
A commemorative plaque honoring the heroes of '56 and the solidarity shown by Argentina at that time.
The park was dedicated as Hungarian Freedom Park on the tenth anniversary of the 1956 Revolution, and two years later, in the fall of 1968, the park’s 1956 memorial—the first in North America dedicated to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution—was unveiled.
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