|  UPDATE
9/22/2006 - "Magyar Park" relocation and renewal
effort in Erie PA successful! The park, founded by AHF member
Frank Juhasz, commemorating the 1956 revolution was moved to a larger
area and refurbished in time for the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian
Revolution. A note from park founder, v. Frank Juhasz: "Our Erie
monument is beautiful however for the 50th anniversary we want to make
sure it is pristine...we planted 10 evergreen shrubs by the property line
to the edge of the river. I don't know if you are aware or not, but there
was originally a river right where this monument stands today. There was
no property on this corner.  After
almost one year of meetings and disussions with Penn-Dot (our state street
department) I was able to convenicce them to change the coarse of the
river so they could back fill one side of it, and create the property
for this monument. On the first pictures is Batizy Tass and myself. He
is a second generation Hungarian. The other person is John Porath who
helped. He is not Hungarian, but donationed his time and work because
he loves the Hungarians."
 10/2/2004
- "Magyar Park" relocation effort in Erie PA
making progress. The park, founded by AHF member Frank Juhasz,
commemorating the 1956 revolution is being moved to a larger area and
is schedule to be unveiled in time for the 48th anniversary of the Hungarian
Revolution on October 23rd 2004.
 Frank
Juhasz wanted to find a way to honor his fellow "Pesti Srácok"
or the "Boys from Pest," another way to call a Freedom Fighter.
We found a beautiful lot in Erie and designed the monument which featured
the now famous Hungarian flag with the hole in the middle where the hate
Soviet-imposed red star was resided. Juhasz said, "úgy érzem,
ott vannak velem mindannyian... a pesti srácok... sokuk csak fentrol,
az égbol néz rám... és én boldog vagyok,
hogy itt, a világ másik részén is  hirdethetem,
hogy ok milyen nagyszeru emberek voltak!" [translation: "I feel
they are all here with me, the boys from Pest, many from above, from the
sky they watch me. And I am gladdened that here too, on the other side
of the earth, I exclaimed just how great they were"] -
Bryan Dawson-Szilagyi
See the article in Hungarian on Panorama
Magazine. [back to all AHF news] 
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