TY - GEN T1 - Carrying a secret in my heart-- : children of the victims of the reprisals after the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 : an oral history A1 - Kőrösi, Zsuzsanna A2 - Molnár, Adrienne LA - English LA - Hungarian PP - Budapest ; New York PB - Central European University Press YR - 2003 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm52740508 AB - For a decade now, the authors have been conducting interviews for Hungary's Oral History Archives, with the children of those Hungarians - national heroes, as they are generally seen today - who were imprisoned for their involvement in the 1956 revolution. The vast body of material that has been collected, and is now at the disposal of sociologists, psychologists and others in the academic community, forms the basis of this volume. This is a documentation of memories of the revolt and, more particularly, its aftermath. The virtually spontaneous ten-day uprising exerted a lasting effect on the fates of the families of the more than 20,000 who were imprisoned and 229 executed by the regime in the harsh reprisals that followed the crushing of the revolution (the last of them as late as the early 1960s), with active police surveillance extended to tens of thousands more. This intimidation, and the attendant social and economic devastation that it wrought, bore especially hard on the psyches, upbringing and education, and hence the subsequent opportunities and life courses of the children who grew up within those families. The material is grouped by theme: e.g. the effects on communication within families, changes in social status, how relatives and friends reacted, and what sorts of problems these children encountered in pursuing their studies, in trying to assimilate into society as adults, and in relating to those fathers who did return. In an appendix, the editors present detailed biographies of the people most directly affected, offering an unparalleled glimpse into the fates of those they interviewed. The documentation includes letters that the children wrote to their imprisoned fathers. OP - 195 CN - DB957.3 .K6813 2003eb SN - 0585458146 SN - 9780585458144 SN - 9786155053917 SN - 615505391X SN - 1281268720 SN - 9781281268723 SN - 9789639241558 SN - 9639241555 SN - 9786611268725 SN - 6611268723 KW - Children of prisoners : Hungary : Interviews. KW - Hungary : History : Revolution, 1956 : Personal narratives. KW - Enfants de prisonniers : Hongrie : Entretiens. KW - Hongrie : Histoire : 1956 (Révolution) : Récits personnels. KW - HISTORY. KW - HISTORY : Europe : Austria & Hungary. KW - Children of prisoners KW - Hungary KW - 1956 KW - Childhood, Communism, Family life, History, Interview, Personal narratives, Political persecution. KW - History KW - Interviews KW - Personal narratives KW - Personal narratives. KW - Récits personnels. ER -