External Links to 1956 Resources. Click [here] to suggest a link:

• The American Hungarian Federation is coordinating events across the country and planning over a year of events in Washington DC that started October, 2005! Read more about us and join!
• The 1956 Institute, (1956-os Intézet) headed by Dr. Janos Reiner, is a great site devoted to exploring the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in English and Hungarian.
• www.celebratingfreedom1956.org - The Cleveland Hungarian Revolution 50th Anniversary Committee (CHR50) is organizing a major observance event of this important historical milestone on October 21st and 22nd, 2006 in Cleveland, Ohio.
• The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is participating in the international conference entitled "1956 and Hungary: the Memory of Eyewitnesses - In Search of Freedom and Democracy" that is currently taking place at the Italian Cultural Centre in Budapest September 28-29, 2006. [read more]
• www.freedomfighter1956.com - a Hungarian American Coalition project that aims to present oral histories from the Hungarian Revolution.
• Magyar Radio Online - includes many audio files and an analysis in Hungarian: "Ki húzta meg a ravaszt eloször 1956. október 23-án?" "Who was the first to pull the trigger?"
• Time Magazine gave Hungarian Freedom Fighters the title "Man of the Year" on July 1, 1957. "The Freedom Fighters filled the empty bottles with gasoline and corked them with table napkins, making what they called 'benzine flashes."
• The Hungary Page - offers information on 1956, the 1956 Olympics, the popular "Nobel Prize Winners and Famous Hungarians," resources on Trianon, Transylvania, History, Music, and more.
• Wikipedia - the free, online encyclopedia that allows readers to manage its content!
• BBC "On This Day" allows you to see historical reports, photos, and videos on various days of the revolution. For example, October 23, 1956, October 26, 1956, and November 4, 1956.
• The 1956 Hungarian Revolution Historical Documentation and Research Foundation in Hungary - a source for thousands of photographs from the period
• The National Security Archive at The George Washington University provides a wealth of information on the 1956 Revolution available for download in PDF.
• The 1956 Hungarian Revolution - a short chronology of events with pictures
• Pal Maleter on Wikipedia - the military leader of the Hungarian Revolution
• www.sulinet.hu has as site that transcribed many of the various speeches given before, during, and after the revolution - a fascinating chronology from Nagy to Mindszenty. (Hungarian)
• Az 1956-os Magyar Forradalom igaz története - in Hungarian. "What the history books left out." Published by the 1956 World Federation.
• Az 1956-os forradalom története Esztergomban - The Revolution in Esztergom (in Hungarian)
• Arcok és sorsok - a great site with photos and biographies of some 1956 Freedom Fighters
• Nagy Imre október 23-án: Nagy Imre október 23-án eleinte hallani sem akart arról, hogy a Parlamentbe menjen és szóljon a tömeghez. Ám mégis megtette. Döbbenetet érezhetett, amikor lenézett a Parlament ablakából, s akkor is, amikor kifütyülték az „elvtárs” megszólítást. Beszéde az alant álló ismeretlen erovel szembeni aggodalmát és szorongását mutatja.

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