Reminiscences of Lajos and Kati Piros, 1979.

Biographical Note

Hungarian refugees; interviewees are husband and wife

Scope and Contents

Life in Hungary under communism, 1944-1956: economic conditions, political surveillance, work, education; Hungarian Revolution, 1956; flight through Austria to the United States; international rescue operations; settlement in New Haven, CT

Subjects

• Briggs, Martha, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Hungary--History--Revolution, 1956.
• Hungary--Politics and government--20th century.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Piros, Kati, 1931---Interviews.
• Piros, Kati, 1931- interviewee.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ive
• Piros, Lajos, 1925---Interviews.
• Political refugees.

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