Gizella Boytar
Toward the new world
CONTENTS, INTRODUCTION
Contents
TOWARD THE NEW WORLD
The journey began
Twenty years later...
1933 - Budapest Keleti Railroad Station
Life in the City started to get back to "normal"
Now let's return to our lives in the new world
Epilogue by Anci
Introduction
1956 November - in Alag - a suburb of Budapest - in the cold autumn wind - three generations of women, a grandmother, a mother, and an eight year old little girl huddle together at twilight, looking at the smoke above the city, and the fire blazing from the mortar shells, hearing the sounds of gunfire, shells exploding, the sound of the Russian tanks invading the city.
Budapest was starting to rebuild and heal from its war wounds after the Second World War. Now the returning Russian tanks have come back once again to finish the destruction and quell the Revolution. How unbearable and cruel this regime had to be that a small nation of ten million Hungarians, revolted against the Communist regime and the Russian occupation. The Russians defeated them, although the Hungarian police, the borders guards, and the military all fought on the side of the people. Hopes ran high that the western countries would come and liberate us but alas, thousands more youth died in hopeful vain and nobody came. Only the tanks came. And they came on the road where our journey into freedom began.