Hungary | Memory of Nations

Contemporary witnesses from Hungary

Kőszeg Ferenc

Ferenc Kőszeg

* 1939

Hungary, Member of the Hungarian democratic underground

András Kovács, at the end of the seventies

András Kovács

* 1947

Hungary, Member of the Hungarian democratic underground, Victim of the political police in Hungary, A cultural celebrity

Eva Králiková in the 50s.

Eva Králiková

* 1937

Hungary, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, National minorities and 3 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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Zsolt Krokovay

* 1946

Hungary, Member of the Hungarian democratic underground, Victim of the political police in Hungary, Charter 77 signatory, The underground

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Ladislav Labancz

* 1939

National minorities, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945 and 1 more categories

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 1 more anniversaries

Witness - Tomáš Lang

Tomáš Lang

* 1942

Hungary, Holocaust, Relative of a political prisoner

25 December 1944 - 13 February 1945 Siege of Budapest, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Etela Laňková, 1990

Etela Laňková

* 1943

Hungary, Ukraine, Artists, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks

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Gabriella Lengyel

* 1948

Hungary, Member of the Hungarian democratic underground, Victim of the political police in Hungary

Josef Lesný, picture from military ID

Josef Lesný

* 1911 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Holocaust, Red Army soldier, Hungarian army soldier during 2WW, Hungary

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR

Juliana Libári during the EYD recording

Julianna Libári

* 1943

Hungary, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, Victim of forced relocation, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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