Memorial Plaque of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution

The commemorative plaque was erected by the Hungarian Association of NSW in cooperation with Waverley Council. The idea for the plaque came from Péter B. Nagy, former director of the Foreign Economic and Consular Office in Sydney, and was supported by Will Nemesh, the then mayor of Waverley Council, who is of Hungarian descent. The plaque was unveiled in the year marking the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Revolution and War of Independence, with the aim of ensuring that the events of October could be regularly commemorated there in the future.

Present at the unveiling were Will Nemesh, Mayor of Waverley; Zsolt Csenger-Zalán, Hungary’s Ambassador to Canberra; Katalin Ilosvay-Egyed, Vice President of the Hungarian Association of New South Wales; Dr. Mónika Varga, Head of the Consular Office in Sydney, along with her staff; and Stephen Bali, MP, a politician of Hungarian descent whose parents arrived in Australia as refugees after the revolution. Among the guests, in addition to representatives of Hungarian organizations, were those who—either themselves or their ancestors—left Hungary because of the 1956 Revolution.

1956
'Let this monument stand here in memory of the Hungarians who fought for their freedom in 1956, the many who came to Sydney and in gratitude to the country that welcomed them during difficult historical times, to the city that they helped build and ti the land that holds their bodies (now and forever)'
"Álljon itt ez az emlékmű azoknak a magyaroknak az emlékére, akik 1956-ban harcoltak a szabadságukért, és akuk Sydney-be érkeztek, valamint hálául az országnak, amely befogadta őket a nehéz történelmi időkben, a városnak, amelynek építésében segédkeztek, és a földnek, amely testüket hordozza (most és mindörökké)"