Piroska nagy biography for kids
Piroska nagy biography for kids wikipedia
Piroska nagy biography for kids pictures!
Piroska Nagy
User
Has pinned: 17 pins, created 1 projects
About
My story begins with two photographs. In the first my father and his family are in Vienna, refugees of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
It is November. Everyone is looking into the camera, except my father, who is looking out of the picture as if he were not even there.
Piroska nagy biography for kids
He didn’t want to be. That September he had been transferred from his hometown of Nyíregyháza in Eastern Hungary to teach in Erdősmecske, a small mining village in southwestern Hungary. When the revolution broke out, the villagers elected him president of the Revolutionary Council, probably because he was the only intellectual in the village, and perhaps also because they thought it safer to choose someone who was from far away.
If something was to go wrong they didn’t want someone from among them to be arrested. A few days after the Soviet Union crushed the revolution on November 4, my father received a phone call from the township seat that a sec