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Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: Martyrs' Cemetery for the victims of the repression following the Hungarian Revolution.  
The central monument. It is estimated that between December 1956 and June 1961, 350 to 400 people were executed for their part in the uprising.
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Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: Martyrs' Cemetery fo...

Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: Martyrs' Cemetery for the victims of the repression following the Hungarian Revolution.  
The tombstone of Col. Pal Maleter, defender of the Kilian-barracks, Minister of Defence in the Nagy government and executed together with Prime Minister Nagy.
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Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: Martyrs' Cemetery fo...

Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: Children leaving a school in Budapest. During the Uprising, this building was one of the headquarters of the freedom-fighters. See 56-09-02/21.
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Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: Children leaving a s...

Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: begging musicians in elegant Vaci-ut.
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Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: begging musicians in...

Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: Cardinal-Archbishop Laszlo Paskai in the Episcopal Palace in Budapest, where his predecessor, Cardinal Joszef Mindszenty, stayed for a few hours after his liberation and before his long     
exile in the US-Embassy in Budapest.
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Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: Cardinal-Archbishop...

Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: Cardinal-Archbishop Laszlo Paskai in the Episcopal Palace in Budapest, where his predecessor, Cardinal Joszef Mindszenty, stayed for a few hours after his liberation and before his long     
exile in the US-Embassy in Budapest.
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Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: Cardinal-Archbishop...

Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: Monument "Gyoergy Dosza" by Istvan Kiss (died 1998). The monument stands on the slope of Buda Castle Hill in Budapest.
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Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: Monument "Gyoergy Do...

Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: The "Corvin" group of combatants, with their HQ opposite the popular Corvin cinema, was commanded by Gergely Pongratz. He managed to flee to the USA, where he worked as a farmer, and returned to Budapest in 1990.
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Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: The "Corvin" group o...

Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: Andras B. Hegedus, Secretary of the Petoefi Club in 1956 and Director of the Institute for the History of the Hungarian Revolution until his death in 2001. 
Above his desk hangs Lessing's photo of Petoefi-Club members Gabor Tanszos and Geza Losonczy. Losonczy died in prison in 1958.
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Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: Andras B. Hegedus, S...

Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: The "Corvin" group of combatants, with their HQ opposite the popular Corvin cinema, was commanded by Gergely Pongratz. He managed to flee to the USA, where he worked as a farmer, and returned to Budapest in 1990.
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Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: The "Corvin" group o...

Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: Imre Mecs, President of the Defence Committee of the Hungarian National Assembly. After the Revolution, Mecs was sentenced to death, but pardoned minutes before his execution.               Budapest, 1998
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Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: Imre Mecs, President...

Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: Katalin Janosi, a gifted painter, grand-daughter of Prime Minister Imre Nagy. She is the little girl in 56-05-42/9.
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Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: Katalin Janosi, a gi...