Outside Budapest Archives - Freedom Fighter 56

Dr. Steven Julius Török – Debrecen

I was a first year student at Kossuth Lajos Tudományegyetem in Debrecen, studying nuclear physics. Students from Szeged University came to our Univesity on the 21st and reported their 16 points for university autonomy and asked our support. Next day there was…

Mária Szodfridt – The Story of My Husband: The Terrible Years Before the Revolution

Family Members Outside Budapest

Szabadságunkat köszünjük nektek, 56-os hõsök” “For Our Freedom We Thank You, Heroes of 1956” These are the words engraved on the stone monument on the grounds of the Philadelphia & Vicinity Hungarian Sports Club. The Club’s membership dedicated it on…

Ferenc Novák – Class-alien work battalion

Outside Budapest

The autumn air in October 1956 was filled with anticipation in the barracks of Unit 4055 of the work battalion in Komló. We had nearly completed our two years of compulsory military service in the coal mines and were eagerly looking forward…

Eugene Laszlo Hegedus. REMEMBER 56

Outside Budapest

I do remember ’56. One must not forget it. Yes, I remember as if it happened today. Yes, I remember when I experienced freedom for the first time. I remember that our joy was second only to our enthusiasm. I remember when we…

Sándor T. Halász – What should have happened 11 years ago…

Outside Budapest

Print version Summer During the summer of 1956, a Budapest streetcar conductor whose living conditions had been startlingly primitive even by those current-day standards – he lived in a one-room pantry cottage with several children – broke open a store that had…

Imre Farkas Miracle of October 27 – The Vác Prison Break

Outside Budapest

Print version On that day the dream of 1200 political prisoners held captive in the infamous Political Prison of Vac came through. I was serving the sixth year of my life imprisonment, which had been commuted from a…