Polish Radio presents new Hungarian uprising web site
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
03.11.2011 14:34
A conference on the 55th anniversary of the Hungarian uprising has been held at Polish Radio’s Warsaw HQ, which coincides with the launch of a new website produced by the public broadcaster devoted to the events of the autumn of 1956.
photo - Ákos Engelmayer
The project has been co-organized by the Hungarian Cultural Institute and Radio Free Europe.
In addition to Polish Radio archives, the web site contains Radio Free Europe recordings covering the three weeks of the Hungarian Revolution and have been painstakingly reconstructed from tapes deposited in the Federal German Archives in Koblenz which remained forgotten, until their rediscovery in the late 1990s.
The reconstruction project was epic in scope as the 1956 log tapes contained a total of over 6, 500 broadcast hours, recorded on sixty fourteen-track paper-backed tapes.
The conference covered various aspects of the Hungarian Revolution, the role of Radio Free Europe in 1956 and Polish and Hungarian roads to freedom in later years.
The conference brought together leading Polish and Hungarian historians, the Hungarian ambassador to Poland and former director of Radio Free Europe A. Ross Johnson. (mk/pg)