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Hungarian Festival of Freedom Celebrating the
50th Anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution
- October 21-22, 2006. Cleveland, Ohio
Peforming on the main stage
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Cleveland Hungarian Heritage Society
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The Honorable Tom Lantos, keynote speaker. Congressman Lantos is the only holocaust survivor ever to serve in the US Congress.
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Congressman Tom Lantos and daughter Annette
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The Freedom Statue will honor the Hungarian Freedom Fighters of 1956 who fought against oppression.
The statue will be a permanent memorial located at Mindszenty Plaza in Cleveland. The statue will be engraved with the names of donors and will read:
October 23, 1956
Freedom Is Not Free
In honor of the many Hungarian Freedom Fighters who fought against Soviet oppression.
Torn from the flag the symbol of oppression.
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John Juhasz, Chairman of the Festival of Freedom, watches the keynote address
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Bruno Thut. At age 19, Bruno was a youth leader in support of Hungarian refugees in Switzerland
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Marek Jan Chodakiewicz PhD, author and lecturer, Professor of History, Institute of World Politics
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Steven Reger, Cleveland Clinic Research Scientist
and 1956 Eyewtiness
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Csardas Dancers Candice Kish and Melissa Dial
Csardas Dance Company is a 501c3 non-profit professional dance company located in northeast Ohio presenting traditional and contemporary works stemming from Hungrarian heritage.
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Eszti Pigniczky, Hungarian dancer, in full costume
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Margaret Csolty and Barbra Grayer
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Dr. August Pust, former US Commissioner for Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad and Director Emeritus, Ohio Governor's Office of Multicultural Affairs and International Relations.
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Artist Emery Bogardy
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Dr. Robert Ivany at the closing ceremony
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Hungarain Nobel Laureates
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Bocskal Cultural Society
- Judith Osvath, Benta Erika and Farkas Eruvlet
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ClevelandHungarians.com display
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Wilma Smith speaks to the crowd
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Judy Osvath in traditional Transylvanian costume
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Students representing Hungary in the Model United Nations (clockwise from bottom left)
- Andrew Tesler, Dominic Lamirand,
Connor Dague and Jessica Munczenski
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Stephen Agoston and Bela Gazdag
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Mary Lou and John Uray
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Kate Uhlir with Diana and Steven Baloth with twins Zakary and Andrew and cousin Micah Baloth
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Danny and Kathy Vegh outside the Wolstein Center
(read more about Danny Vegh)
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Young dancers in costume
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Hungarian Cultural Center booth
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Student project about 1956
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The empty stage with the new statue
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