Inspired Creativity Archives - Freedom Fighter 56

Eszti Pigniczky – Storyline for scouts

After the Second World War, the Communist regime in Hungary banned, among many other institutions, the scouting movement. Hungarian scouts reorganized in exile, first in Western Europe, then in other countries where Hungarians fled. Since 1951, Hungarian scout troops have been meeting…

Réka Pigniczky JOURNEY HOME: A Film About My Father

Family Members Inspired Creativity

Whenever the kids at school teased us about our funny names and our parents’ accents, we shot back: “Leave me alone, my dad was a freedom fighter.” That shut them up, at least for a while. My sister and I want our…

Thomas P. Muhl – It Has Not Been Long Enough to Forget

Adult Eyewitness Inspired Creativity

It has been 50 years since Russian tanks crushed the dream of a free Hungary. But it has not been long enough to forget. I was an artist. My job was to paint larger-than-life portraits of Lenin and Stalin. That…

Leslie (László) Megyeri – Ode to a Hungarian Freedom Fighter

Inspired Creativity

He was a teenager who lived in Budapest during the fateful days of October, 1956. He attended gymnasium in Kispest and studied hard to be a good student. He despised the Communists for their godless ways and their hate of Hungarian…

Andrea Lauer Rice – Passing on the Legacy of 1956

Family Members Inspired Creativity

Print version Although I always knew that I was Hungarian-my family traveled back to Hungary every two years or so after I was born-I only really came into my Hungarian identity, the true spirit of it, much later in life. It is…

Erika G. Kisvarsányi – In the Light of the Moon

Family Members Inspired Creativity

Print version I am an ancient Hungarian pagan Thundering along on horseback, with my sword held high With intense devotion to forgiving Mother Earth, Mother Sun I praise the spirit of the Universe I am a disciple of Istvan Thundering along…