1956 memorial to be raised in Manhattan
Budapest, August 25 (MTI) – A memorial honouring Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet revolution will be erected in Manhattan, Ferenc Kumin, Hungary’s consul general to New York, said on Thursday.
The monument, which will be placed beside the existing statue of Hungarian revolutionary Lajos Kossuth, will depict the constellations visible on October 23, 1956, Kumin told public news channel M1. He said there was a good chance that the memorial could be ready by the revolution’s 60th anniversary.
Preparations and fundraising for the memorial have been ongoing for ten years but now all the necessary permits have been obtained, he added.
Source: MTI
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This is simply wonderful, I will surely visit it. On September 24, a monument will be erected in Szenpterfa, Hungary for the 1956 Refugees who left .Szentpeterfa. I do beleive that this is the first monument in Hungqry for the 1956 Refugees. The monument was donated by an American who had q dear frind from Szentpeterfa. County and federal,offcials will attend,, hope that you will cover ir.