Download the pdf file: Hungary 1956
It has been 60 years since the Hungarian revolution in October of 1956, This was a momentous time in Hungarian history as well as for the many Hungarians who emigrated from Hungary and settled in various countries around the world including Canada.
Our family left Hungary after the second world war and established roots in Canada. We were fortunate to be able to help many Hungarians who arrived in Canada in 1956 and build a strong Hungarian Canadian community in Montreal and elsewhere in Canada.
When the events began to unfold, my cousin Marika who was 13 at that time started an album of newspaper clippings recording the events as they unfolded. This graphic history is mostly chronological and in no ways complete but provides an essence of how the events were perceived from a Canadian perspective.
The attached pdf document is a copy of that album and is best viewed via a computer rather than through print form as the text is not legible when printed. This is a large file and make take some time to download depending on your internet speed.