Some 38,000 Hungarians who fled Hungary because of the revolution were able to start new lives in Canada thanks to a loosening of immigration laws. Canada and the Hungarian Revolution, one of two exhibitions organised by the Canadian Embassy, documents Canadians' outrage after the revolution was crushed and the country's welcoming response to those fleeing.
The second exhibition, entitled New Lives and Canada, shows recent portraits of fifty prominent Hungarians who settled in Canada after the 1956 Revolution. The portraits, taken by the Canadian photographer V. Tony Hauser, are accompanied by biographies demonstrating how these refugees contributed to Canada's cultural, economic and social development.
Some of the subjects of the photographs, including Eva Czigler, Antal Deutsch, Tom Mihalik, Béla Fejér and Tom Emodi, will speak at the opening of the exhibition at 17:00 on February 19. The opening will be attended by Hungary's President László Sólyom.
The exhibitions will be open to the public at the Hungarian Cultural Foundation, at Szentháromság tér 6, in the Castle District, from February 20 until March 4.
The exhibition of portraits has already been shown at the National Art Center in Ottawa, as well as in Toronto and Halifax.
Source: Múlt-kor
