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6/28/2005
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LIVE! The American Hungarian Federation is sponsoring the
Hungary 1956 Portal... as part of its goals to coordinate
and assist member organizations across the country, as it continues
plans for kicking off a year of events leading up to October 2006.
The 1956 Portal will serve as a central information resource for
all things 1956 as our community prepares for this important milestone.
Includes many photos as well as Audio and Video files!
Featured Video Note: You will need the free RealAudio Player to see these videos. Click [here] to download. "Five
Days of Freedom in Budapest" - "Budapest is in revolt.
With uncontrolled fury, crowds set fire to Russian flags... The
impossible has happened. A handful of heroes has shaken the communist
world to its foundations." (5.2 Mb) 6/20/2005 - AHF's 1956 Commemoration Committee meets in DC (on 6/20) and in New York (on 6/14), as it continues plans for kicking off a year of events leading up to the 50th Anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Highlights include commemoration events in 2005 and a presentation of arias from the "Bank Ban" in New York with Placido Domingo. AHF is calling for volunteers to assist with 2005 plans in Washington, DC. Please contact us. Our next meeting is scheduled for July 12th, 2005 at our DC Headquarters. Some of the other activities include:
Get involved - we need your HELP! [read more] 6/22/2005 - Rev. Imre Bertalan and the Bethlen Home moved in to their new 15-million-dollar facility on June 22nd. A formal dedication of the facility will take place on Labor Day, September 5th. [read more] and [here] 6/12/2005 - National Hungarian Memorial dedicated on June 12th! Arpad Dobolyi of the Memorial Committee, chose the site for the National Hungarian Memorial honoring Hungarian heroes that perished against the communist takeover. AHF President Emeritus Dr. Nadas Gyula gave the keynote address. Read more about this and other [AHF Activities Around the Country] [join us!] [> Go to all AHF news] NOTE: We use this list SPARINGLY.
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Featured Link: Do you think you know something about famous Hungarians? Think again! See "Nobel Prize Winners and Famous Hungarians" on www.thehungarypage.com Featured Member Professor
Andrew Davidhazy is one the world's foremost experts
on technical / scientific photography. A professor at the renowned
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Dr. Davidhazy's work
in high-speed photography, as seen here in his famous "splash,"
is well-recognized. His father was a captain in the Hungarian
merchant marine who later moved to Argentina and then to the
US and was influential in shipbuilding industry. Hungarians in International News TOP STORY Slovak MP apologizes for Benes Decrees, while Gasparovic
says: Benes decrees shouldn't be discussed any more Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic thinks there is no need for further discussion on the Benes decrees. If they were discussed, it would not be good for the Hungarian minority in Slovakia, he said on Monday. Gasparovic considers re-igniting these discussions to be a waste of time, adding that he thinks ordinary people are not interested in them either. The decrees played their role in the past when institutions were trying to defeat fascism, he said. On Saturday in Budapest Christian Democrat MP Frantisek Miklosko apologised to Hungarians living in Slovakia for the persecutions carried out by the Czechoslovak state in 1945-1948 based on the collective guilt principle. The Slovak Parliament also cancelled plans to debate the Benes Decrees. [more on this story] [more about the Benes Decrees] MORE NEWS The Pro Europe League calling for the renaming of war
criminal "Ion Antonescu" street in Marosvasarhely /
Tirgu-Mures Rumanian law prohibits the "promotion of such individuals guilty of acts against hmanity and the peace." This is the last city on Rumania with a street still bearing his name. [Read in Hungarian] Natwar Singh unveils bust of Tagore in Hungary External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh on Saturday unveiled the bust of Rabindranath Tagore in the Hungarian city of Balaton Fured, where the nobel laureate had gone for cardiac treatment in 1926. In a related story, India donated 1.5 million forints for a Hungarian hospital. [read more] Hungarian unemployment rate unchanged at 7.2 pct in March-May Hungary's average rate of unemployment was 7.2 pct in March-May this year, unchanged from the February-April period but up 1.4 percentage points from the same period a year earlier, MTI news agency reported, citing the Central Statistics Office. Indian IT consultancy set to hire another 700 in Budapest Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), part of India’s giant Tata Group and one of the world’s largest IT consultancy firms, plans to beef up its Global Development Center in Budapest in order to better serve both CEE and West European markets, according to company executives. [read more] Real Madrid raising funds to help
Ferenc Puskas meet medical bills! Will play tribute match
against Hungary Real Madrid will play Hungary in August to raise funds for ailing
soccer legend Ferenc Puskas. The match is scheduled for Aug. 14
at the Ferenc Puskas Stadium, which was named after the former
Hungarian and Real Madrid striker in 2002. BBC ON THIS DAY - 6/16/1989: Former Communist prime minister Imre Nagy, the man who symbolises the 1956 Hungarian uprising, has been given a formal public funeral 31 years after he was executed. The site includes videos and audio clips of Nagy and the revolution [read more] Hungary condemns Jewish cemetery attack Political and civic leaders in Hungary have strongly condemned an attack on a Jewish cemetery in Budapest which left some 130 gravestones damaged. [read more] French-Japanese facility opens in Gyor The Franco-Japanese automotive alliance Renault-Nissan has inaugurated a 19,000sqm central European component storage, distribution and logistics facility in Gyõr (120km north-west of Budapest). The alliance has closed down its two similar facilities in Austria. [read more] |