Personal recollections of emigration and the years of settling in – written or recorded, tied to a memorial or told on their own.
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27 stories in the collection
The name of Povl Bang-Jensen, a Danish diplomat and international lawyer, is inextricably linked to the aftermath of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, as he sacrificed his life to…
With this old photograph, taken sometime in 1959, I wanted to pay tribute to my father, Dezső Trombitás, and the heroes of ’56, and also to honor the memory of those young children…
Yearly, we gather to commemorate the 1956 Hungarian Freedom Fighters and those that have sacrificed their lives. We remember the resiliency, grit and courage of those that fought…
One of the most remarkable chapters in the wave of Swiss solidarity that followed the suppression of the 1956 Revolution was the story of the Swiss Student Union (VSS/UNES),…
For the first time in my life, I truly felt homesick when, while walking through the streets of Boston, I suddenly came across this monument to the 1956 Revolution. Tears welled up…
I lived in Denver for half a year. I was truly amazed to find that they considered remembrance important there as well—and what’s more, it was here in Denver, in a small park, that…
We raised over $150,000 from across the United States to create this statue. Many donors contributed to honor family members who were freedom fighters. There were 17 freedom…
We travelled here on April 1, 2023, and discovered this little square; we placed a small Hungarian flag there.
In 1968, the four of us—my best friends (classmates from technical school)—traveled to Poland for the first time, including a visit to Szczecin, and 50 years later, we revisited…
My best friends (three of my classmates from technical school) and I first visited Poland in the summer of 1968 (when we were 17–18 years old), and 50 years later, we repeated…
It was particularly important to me that Hamburg preserve a visible reminder of why the street was named Budapester Straße in 1956. That is why I joined the initiative, which aimed…
The postcard below is from my own collection. It was stamped in Sopron in the fall of 1956 with the inscription “Hazádnak rendületlenül...” One of the most unique mementos in…
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