In honor of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 revolution and freedom struggle, the Archives of the Hungarian Order of the Society of Jesus has published previously unpublished photographs from 1956 kept in its collection.
As can be read in the Friday announcement of the religious order, three series of pictures have survived in the collection, which show the revolution and its consequences from three different aspects.
The first series contains footage taken in Budapest in October-November 1956, shocking images of ruined houses, streets and certain events.
The second series was taken in a (presumably) Austrian refugee camp among the Hungarian refugees of '56, the pictures were developed in the Netherlands.
The third series depicts young Hungarians who left Belgrade for Belgium by train in 1957 to begin their studies at the University of Leuven. During their university years, their residence was provided by the Jesuit-run Collegium Hungaricum operating there.
The first series was transferred to the Jesuit archives from a private individual, and the other two from the archives of the Collegium Hungaricum in Leuven.
The recordings were found in 2020 in the course of the work on the volume "The Jesuits in Hungary from the beginning to the present" which was published in September this year from the previously unorganized part of the photo material.
The images can be viewed in PDF format in the archive's free E-library, which does not require registration, by clicking here . In the related E-archive, after registration, you can read the so-called Sectio II, which brings together the members of the Hungarian Jesuit order who fled abroad. Also his papers from 1948-57. The latter were digitized and published on the 60th anniversary of the revolution, they recalled in the announcement.
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Photo: Archives of the Hungarian Order of the Society of Jesus
