Magyar News, 2003. szeptember-2004. augusztus (14. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

2003-11-01 / 3. szám

...do you remember October 23?

For many years the Magyar News has been looking for material about the 1956 Uprising that shows how the West was involved helping the Hungarians. This time the National Geographic Magazine came into the lime-light. In their 1957 March issue I found a photo report on the refuges heading to the United States.

Robert F. Sisson, a National Geographic staff member just before Christmas went to a spot on the Austrian- Hungarian border where about 2,000 refugees were escaping from the Communist Hungary every week. He learned about an 88 year old woman who made it all he way on foot. Then Mr.

Sisson remembers the 11 month old baby who ended up on the safe side of the World. Some little ones were kept asleep by having sleeping pill given to them so they will stay quiet. The most worrisome sounds came from the guns of the borderguards. Fortunately there were those guards who looked the other way.

Many Hungarians had to flee, many just wanted to get out. Whatever way it happened all the refugees found the helping hand of many countries, governments, organizations and individuals. These pictures, only part of the Sisson report, show

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moments of how it happened. The Magyar News every year remembers October 23, 1956. We dealt with the bloody reality of the Uprising, the heroes of the Hungarian youth. We found people on this side of the world who took the hungry, homeless, and scared men, women and children by their

hand, gave them food, shelter, work and warm friendship.

In the photographs we see the lonely women in the darkness of the night making her last steps across the border to a safe farmhouse on Austrian soil. In an other photo there are hundreds of refugees lined