In November 1847, the Pozsony Diet was opened by the emperor of the Austrian empire: Ferdinand. At that time, no one could have imagined this would be the last feudal Diet in Hungarian history. That ...

On an October morning 50 years ago, Sandor Boldizsar walked out of his Soviet-controlled factory outside Budapest and joined thousands of fellow Hungarians in protest. “The hope was to see if the ...

Executive Director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VCMF) Marion Smith and former Hungarian diplomat Zoltán Fehér, now a research fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy's ...

When it comes to remembering the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Lorain County’s International City, the crowd of freedom fighters and refugees who participated in putting a crack in the foundation of ...

Many have tried to compare Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to Hitler’s 1939 invasion of Poland. A much better comparison is Soviet action during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, when, in response to the ...

On Sunday, we mark the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, which succeeded for 12 glorious days before being crushed by Soviet tanks. Indeed, my aunt, who was a nurse providing first ...

My father was a member of the Revolutionary Committee of his workplace, the Hungarian National Bank. My grandfather, a realist, feared certain reprisal but still encouraged us to "take part in the ...

Hilde Daugherty, left, and Katalin Rezbanyay Albring, right, hold a Hungarian flag with a large hole in the center as the symbol of the revolution during a wreath-laying ceremony in International Park ...

Amid rising antisemitism, Holocaust education has been particularly notable. In “Not a Real Enemy: The True Story of a Hungarian Jewish Man’s Fight For Freedom,” Dr. Robert J. Wolf (LA’84) and Janice ...

Both mother and son held their breath. Concealed in a hay wagon, the pair had been warned to sit close to the surface in case soldiers thrust swords into the bottom of the stack checking for fleeing ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Having set its clocks ahead one hour like most of the rest of us, the ...