1956 Hungarian Revolution

  • Andrea Csongor
    The group of sportsmen travelling to the XVI Summer Olympic Games. In the foreground István Hevesi water polo player, next to him Imre Polyák wrestler, and György Gurics wrestler, behind them Ervin Zádor water polo player, and Jenő Bakó, swimming master coach

    The "Melbourne bloodbath", the revenge of the Hungarian water polo team – How we repaid the crushing of the '56 revolution

    It would surely be difficult to find a connection between the sight of blood mixing with the pool water, the Olympic performance of our...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Sándor Iharos running at a race

    World success chased him in vain, never caught up with him – Sándor Iharos, a runner who was faster than everyone

    It is said that in Hungary in the 1950s, Sándor Iharos was to athletics what Ferenc Puskás was to football. In 1955, he was...
  • Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
    The girl in the red coat

    This is how the girl in the red coat remembers the revolution: 'We breathed together'

    She did not even suspect that she would become a messenger of freedom when she put on her red coat and headed to the...
  • Lenke Fehér
    Brenner János

    “The fact is, you should be exterminated! – the fates of priests after 1956

    In the wake of the crushing of the 1956 Revolution until late 1957, that is, in just over one year, nearly 20,000 people were...
  • Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
    Árpád Brusznyai

    “Only the forgotten die” – The immortal love of a 1956 martyr and a young woman

    Árpád Brusznyai was a true intellectual. A young teacher who only wanted good, who did not murder or steal, his only ‘crime’ being that...