LINKS
Hungarian News
Index (www.index.hu)
Online news portal with a flair for the sarcastic
Magyar Hirlap (www.magyarhirlap.hu)
Daily Hungarian newspaper
Magyar Nemzet (www.mno.hu)
Daily Hungarian newspaper
MTI (www.mti.hu)
Daily news from the Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
Nepszabadsag (www.nol.hu)
Daily Hungarian newspaper
Nepszava (www.nepszava.hu)
Daily Hungarian newspaper
Origo (www.origo.hu)
Online news portal
Hungarian American Resources
General information on Hungary
(www.magyarorszag.hu)
Hungarian Embassy in U.S. (www.huembwas.org)
The official website for the Hungarian Embassy in Washington, D.C. In addition to news, the Embassy website also lists information on obtaining citizenship, visas for visit to the U.S. and local notaries in your area.
Hungarian Heritage Museum (Cleveland, OH)
(www.jcu.edu/language/hunghemu/)
The Hungary Page (www.thehungarypage.com/)
An interesting collection of English-language links on everything Hungarian from food to history.
American Hungarian Foundation & The Hungarian Heritage Center (New Brunswick, N.J.)
(http://141.153.228.72:8089/index1.htm)
Facts about Hungary
(www.fsz.bme.hu/hungary/facts.html)
American Hungarian Folklore Centrum
(http://hungaria.org/ahfc/)
Hungarian Online Resources
(http://hungaria.org/)
English-Hungarian-English Online Dictionary
(http://dict.sztaki.hu/english-hungarian)
Sites For Kids
Egyszer Volt (www.egyszervolt.hu)
Games, stories, etc, all in Hungarian
Gyermek Sziget (www.gyermeksziget.hu)
Levendulaneni (www.levendulaneni.hu)
Nepmese / Folk Tales (www.nepmese.hu)
Hungarian folk tales (in Hungarian)
Language Learning
(www.kaleidovox.hu)
1956
Freedom Fighter 56 (www.FreedomFighter56.com)
This oral history website collects stories from freedom fighters, participants, observers and family members of '56-ers to pass the stories onto the next generation. Based on this website, two books have been published. The site also provides access to FF56!, an educational computer game about 1956.
1956 Institute (www.rev.hu/)
The Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution has a variety of resource material about the Revolution, including a detailed day-by-day history of events, a photo archive, oral histories and more.
1956 Institute on sulinet (www.rev.hu/sulinet56/online/navig...)
This is a special site created by The Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution for use on sulinet (the Hungarian school network), with a day-by-day description of events.
Hungarian Radio (kincsestar.radio.hu/jeles/jelesok...)
Listen to actual broadcasts from Hungarian Radio from 1956. In addition to accessing broadcasts from the archives, this site is filled with photos and detailed information about the events of the Revolution.
Journey Home, Documentary Film (www.56films.com)
Journey Home (Hazatérés) is an award-winning documentary film by Reka Pigniczky. A journey by two American women to bury their father's ashes in Hungary becomes a quest to discover what he did as a freedom fighter during the Revolution of 1956, and how it changed all of their lives forever.
Terror House Museum, Budapest (www.terrorhaza.hu/)
The House of Terror Museum is a monument to Hungarians who were held captive, tortured or killed in this building during the two bloodiest periods of communism and fascism. “The Museum intends to make people understand that the sacrifice for freedom was not in vain.”
Torn from the Flag, Documentary Film (www.klaudiainc.com/pages/UPCOMING...)
Torn from the Flag is a feature-length, English-language documentary film about the significant global effects and international participants of the Hungarian Revolution and Freedom Fight of 1956. The film is being produced by Klaudia Kovacs and was released in 2007.
General History
(www.hungarian-history.hu/)
Online books in English on all sorts of topics
