1956 - The Kossuth Lajos Square Massacre and its Memorial by Csaba Németh / The Kossuth Square Booklets / English language Documentary Booklet

PAPERBACK 2015

ISBN: 9789639848764  /  978-9639848764

ISBN-10: 963984876X

ISSN 2416-3481

PAGES: 31

PUBLISHER: The Office of the National Assembly

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH (ANGOL)

The Kossuth Square booklets
Series Editors: Margit Kerekes, Csaba Németh

Exhibition Curator: Sandor Őze
Assistants: Barbara Bank, Rolf Miiller
Exhibition Designer: Zsolt Vasaros
(Narmer Architecture Studio)
Assistant: Agnes Eiszrich
Exhibition area design: Bence Vadasz
(Vadasz and Partners Architectural Art Studio Ltd)

Author: Csaba Németh
Editor: Eszter Légrady
Lectors: Gyula Kedves, Rolf Miiller, Sandor Oze
Translation: Andras Mile
Proofreading: Adrian Hart

Photography: Gyérgy Bencze-Kovacs
Photograph selection: Ibolya Csengel-Plank,
Eszter Légrady
Graphic Design: Anita Batki (HVG Press Ltd)
Printing prepration: HVG Press Ltd
Director: Péter Téth
Printed and bound by Diirer Press Ltd, Gyula
Director: Viktor Fekete

This booklet was produced by the Directorate of
Cultural Affairs of the Office of the Hungarian
National Assembly,
Director: Istvan Bellavics

English Summary:

Under circumstances still unknown, Hungarian army and Soviet military units opened fire on peaceful protesters gathering on Kossuth Lajos Square on 25 October 1956, which took a heavy toll in human life; the exact number of victims has still not been established. During the reconstruction of Kossuth Square in 2014, the exhibition and memorial site paying tribute to the victims of the massacre and the revolution of 1956 was opened in what once served as one of the Parliament building's ventilation tunnels. This brochure commemorates the events of the 'bloody Thursday' of 25 October, the revolution of 1956 and the era, while also taking readers around the central space of the exhibition.