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1956 Hungarian Memorial Oral History Project
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Hungarian interview - Martin Seregelyes
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Martin Sergelyes was born in Austria, in 1946. His father immigrated to Canada in 1948. Mr. Sergelyes recalls the death of Stalin, the AVO house search, Radio Free Europe. He offers his perspectives on the world as a child. He discusses school folk songs, the symbolism of Kossuth cimer, and remembers in 1956 when his class burned Stalin's picture. He talks about communism and fear and how this affected people in Hungary. He remembers the arrival of Russian soldiers passing through the Great Plain. Mr. Sergelyes left for England, and attended school in Worcester, before immigrating to Canada in February 1957. He travelled from Montreal to Toronto and then to Hamilton. Mr. Sergelyes discusses his integration into Canadian culturem and also how he maintained his Hungarian hertiage.
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Hungarian interview - Andrew More
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Andrew More discusses his personal background, including the story of his father's emigration from Hungary to Canada. His father became a tobacco farmer in south-western Ontario, and was also involved in the fertilizer business. Mr. More talks about the history of early Hungarian settlers in the area, as well as his own family's history. He describes the situation of ethnic minorities in Ontario in the post-WWII period, and also the failure of the 1956 Hungarian refugees to adjust to farming. Mr. More also talks about the Ontario Tobacco Marketing Board and 'tobacco rights.' He provides information on the role of Communist party in the tobacco belt in 1930s and 1940s. The interview ends with Mr. More's opinions on his ethnic group's success in the area around Delhi, Ontario.
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Hungarian interview - Ivan Halasz DeBeky
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In this interview Ivan Halasz De Beky talks about the flow of Hungarian people to Canada—before and after the Second World War, and following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He explains the nature of the social hierarchy in Hungarian society. Dr. DeBeky talks about the formation of what he calls a 'special kind' of rightist views in the Hungarian Canadian community, and the motivation behind the creation of TANU, a community newspaper. The goal was to present an objective view of the Hungarian reality, including the left/right dichotomy in immigrant communities in general. He talks about TANU's position in the relationship between the immigrant community and the home country., Dans son entrevue, Ivan Halasz De Beky parle du flot d’immigrants hongrois au Canada – avant et après la Seconde guerre mondiale et suite à la révolution hongroise de 1956. Il explique le fonctionnement de la hiérarchie sociale dans la société hongroise. Le docteur De Beky parle des opinions de droite qu’il qualifie de «spéciales» dans la communauté canadienne-hongroise et des buts et objectifs qui ont accompagné la création du journal communautaire TANU. Le but était de présenter une vue objective de la réalité hongroise, incluant la dichotomie gauche/droite dans les communautés immigrantes en général. Il parle de la position du journal TANU en ce qui concerne les relations entre la communauté immigrante et leur pays d’origine.
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