október 23, 2014 at 2:00 AM CEST
Budapest
Hope and Tragedy: an eyewitness recalls Hungary’s 1956 Revolution
When bullets first pierced the night air over downtown Pest’s Bródy Sándor Street on October 23, 1956, György Kalmár was there among the crowd of demonstrators who would soon become freedom fighters. Now 75 years old, Mr. Kalmár shares his memories of that fateful day.