Book

Victim: Imprisonment Because of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956

Genre: History
URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20101122231326/http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?action=read&artid=280

Reading measures

Suggested reading age: ages 16–18
Ambleside year: Year 11 onwards · ages 16–19

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A firsthand memoir of political persecution following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Szilagyi describes his arrest by the communist secret police, interrogation, imprisonment, forced labor, harsh prison conditions, fellow political prisoners, and eventual release during the political amnesty of 1964.