József Vámosi personally erected this monument to commemorate all Hungarian hero’s.
Burlington, Canada
Hungarian Hero’s Memorial
Charles Joseph Zach
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Victoria BC Saanich, Canada
Memorial in front of City Hall and the police station next to it.
I first visited Canada in 1997 at the invitation of my partner, who had left Hungary in 1956 at the age of 16, and I spent half a year with him. On my many visits there, I was…
Mária Dorogi
Burlington, Canada
1956 Hungarian Revolution Cenotaph
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a brief, nationwide uprising by freedom-loving Hungarians against the tyrannical puppet communist government of Hungary and forced…
Charles Joseph Zach
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Founding of the Sopron Division in Vancouver
The history of the Sopron Division is one of the most moving and cinematic chapters in the stories of Hungarian émigrés. It recounts the unprecedented escape of an entire…
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