In November 1847, the Pozsony Diet was opened by the emperor of the Austrian empire: Ferdinand. At that time, no one could ...

No stranger to the Croisette, the “Taxidermia” helmer returns to Cannes with “Final Cut,” a montage film comprising 450 scenes from mainstream movies that became an underground hit in the film club ...

Mayo Clinic carillonneur James Drummond’s regular Tuesday evening recital on Oct. 16, 1956, included a Hungarian folk song, “Magasan Repul A Daru.” The song, the title of which translates as ...

The 50th anniversary of the start of the Hungarian Uprising takes place in just under two weeks, on 23 October. The crisis that followed the crushing of the uprising was in many ways the first big ...

Artist Judith Karr Eisinger is a second generation Holocaust survivor and author of the book, “Escape: A Long Walk To Freedom”. When I interviewed Judith, she recalled her family’s escape from Hungary ...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian prosecutors on Monday detained a former top Communist party official for his role in the bloody suppression of an anti-Soviet uprising in 1956. It was the first time ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 10 October 2006 The 50th anniversary ...