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Families Before 1956 We left Hungary in 1945 and wound up in Germany via Austria. My grandfather and father were both medical doctors, My father was a surgeon with the Hungarian Red Cross. In Germany, at the end of the war, he became officially a prisoner of war, though the Americans found his …
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Families 1956 My family, mother, father, brother and I, arrived in Halifax in Feb. 16, 1957. We sailed on the MV Britannic from Liverpool, having arrived there from a refugee camp in Austria. We had escaped from Hungary in Dec. 1956, following the unsuccessful revolution there. My first feelings …
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Families 1956 I arrived on a very cold day in January 1957 with my wife and son Richard born on the Boat "Venezuela." We were Hungarian refugees and as our son was born on the boat, there was a lot of hullabaloo about our arrival. The Halifax TV and Newspapers featured this event and until our baby …
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Families 1956 We huddled each night around our radios giving us the news from Budapest. I saw five pointed stars in our town square, weighing many tons, tumble to the ground. Political prisoners were freed from jails. As the army troops moved in the fighting escalated. Each night we had our clothes …
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Single Men and Women To my best recollection the name of the steamship that tied up in Halifax Harbor on January 17th, 1948, was the General Stuart Heintzelman. She was a merchant vessel. She sailed out of Bremerhaven, Germany, the voyage lasting eleven days, many of which were violently stormy. …
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Single Men and Women My name is STEVEN (ISTVAN) ERDOS I was born in Budapest, Hungary. As a Jew, I went through the war- years in Hungary, and after the war, when the Russians occupied Hungary, I decided to escape. Crossing borders at night and dodging border guards with machine guns was an ordeal, …
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