The Polish language recordings include radio broadcasts from October 21, 1956 to June 16, 1989. Included are reports from correspondents in Hungary during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising as well as coverage of the international response to the revolution. The content has been enriched with the cooperation of the Hungarian Cultural institute with 110 photographs and documents from the collection of the Hungarian National Gallery.
The Polish Radio site is the first launched to coincide with the 55th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, said the historian János Tischler, who heads the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Warsaw.
The site, which has been well advertised, is a milestone for raising the profile of Hungarian history among Poles, especially the younger generation. The site, at http://www.polskieradio.pl/99, has already been nominated for the MediaTory prize for young journalists in acknowledgment of the dissemination of recordings, earlier available only to scholars, to the general public.
The recordings on the site, dubbed Wegry, have been reconstructed and digitalised. The originals came from German archives at the end of the 90s.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
