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1956

Christmas by József Rippl-Rónai (c. 1900)

No More Mariah Carey — Enjoy Hungarian Christmas Classics this Winter!

Music is an inalienable part of celebrations, and it is no different at Christmas. But what do Hungarians listen to and sing on this special holiday? We have collected the top classics for you in our article….
Cardinal Mindszenty delivering a radio speech after being freed from prison in 1956 in the Buda Castle.

József Mindszenty and the Revolution of 1956

Cardinal Mindszenty played an important role in the 1956 revolution. He assumed his post as archbishop immediately after his release from captivity, appealed for international aid for Hungary, initiated the process of cleaning the church from Communist infiltration, while also…
Andrea Lauer Rice with her parents, Edith K. Lauer and the late John N. Lauer.

HAC President Andrea Lauer Rice: ‘There are only 1.3 million of us, so we have to work together—across the nation, every generation, and in both languages!’ 

Building community and connection, keeping the memory of 1956 alive, engaging the next generation of Hungarian Americans, advocating for the interests of the Hungarian ethnic communities in Europe and building bridges between Washington and Budapest: this is the mission that…
Hungarian American children posing outside the Hungarian House.

‘Teaching Hungarian for just three hours a week is not enough, we have to rely heavily on parents’ — Fundraising at the Arany János Hungarian School in New York

The school places the emphasis on teaching children to be able to speak, read and, to some extent, write in Hungarian, as well as introducing them to Hungarian culture, history, and geography. Many of the students visit Hungary regularly….
A burnt-out Soviet armoured combat vehicle in Budapest in November 1956.

The Fate of the Uprising: 1956 between November and May

The events of the 1956 Revolution are quite well-known, at least in Hungary, as far as the beginning of it and the period of its brief triumph are concerned. What is less known is that the revolution was not fully…
A group of (probably) Hungarian refugees arrive at Croydon Airport on 21 December 1956.

Extra Hungariam — On the Intellectual Life of the Hungarian Exiles after 1956

The 1956ers were mostly young and eager to prove their worth…A child immigrant, George Szirtes is now a well-known British poet, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize. A young medical student who was offered a place in Oxford’s famous…

‘The Hungarian revolution of 1956 became a part of me’ — An Interview with Edith K. Lauer, Chair Emerita of the Hungarian American Coalition 

‘While establishing the Coalition in the early 1990s, I often tried to look at issues through the “other lens”. If something works in the US, why not try it in Hungary? And if it works in Hungary, why not try…
Revolutionaries near two destroyed tanks in Budapest in November 1956.

4 November: The Day the Revolution Was Crushed

On 4 November 1956, the fate of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was sealed as Soviet troops entered the country to crush the uprising….
President Katalin Novák surrounded by Hungarian Australian youth wearing folk costumes at the Hungarian Centre in Melbourne, Australia on 22 October 2023.

President Novák Attends 1956 Celebration, Meets with Hungarian Community in Melbourne During Visit to Australia

Katalin Novák stressed that one of the purposes of her visit to Australia was to keep the motherland’s connection with the Hungarian diaspora alive, and as part of the effort, she decided to celebrate the anniversary of the 1956 revolution…

‘I decided to become a priest as an act of defiance’ — An Interview with Fr Iván Csete, the Only Hungarian Priest in New York State

‘I thought, there is communism at home, half of the world is godless, they don’t know God or don’t consider Him important, and nobody wants to be a priest anymore… Thus, out of some kind of Hungarian defiance, I decided…

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