Report of the WVF Activities on Behalf of the Hungarian Refugees Submitted to the Secretary General

Report of the WVF Activities on Behalf of the Hungarian Refugees Submitted to the Secretary General

World Veterans Federation

Hungary -- History -- 1956 -1962 -- Sources

Hungary -- History -- Revolution, 1956 -- Refugees

Reports

Records of this digital collection were assembled to document the work of the UN Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary established on January 10, 1957 by the United Nations General Assembly for the purpose of investigating the 1956 Hungarian revolution.

Principal contributor(s): Leo Koenigsberg; World Veteran Federation

Héderváry, Claire de

OSA Archivum

http://catalog.osaarchivum.org/catalog/osa:8d216668-6116-4d06-b1c4-c4477337d303

1957

Héderváry, Claire de

United Nations. General Assembly. Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary

http://www.europeana.eu/portal/rights/rr-f.html

English

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Per this report, from the 5,000 refugees whom Colonel Koenigsberg encountered, between the ages of 25 and 35 and mostly in good physical condition; they were from all classes and professions - workers, intellectuals, shopkeepers, students - but all united by their hunger for freedom. They were not concerned with the sorts of freedom most often spoken about (freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and so on) they just wanted freedom. As one refugee put it: an end to the feeling that "someone was watching you through the keyhole all the time".

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