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September 24,
2006 -
Leica Gallery, NYC
Meeting with
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary
THE HON. KINGA GÖNCZ
at the 1956
Revolution Photo Exhibition by Austrian artist
ERICH LESSING:
THE 1956 HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION
50 YEARS LATER
The
exhibition was organized in conjunction with the Hungarian Consulate
General in New York, and has been generously supported by AP International,
the Hungarian Art Foundation, the William Penn Association, and William
Jakab
Exhibition
open from September 14 - November 4, 2006
Leica Gallery, 670 Broadway, NYC
Foreign Minister Kinga Göncz bestowed
Hungarian State Decorations on this occasion to
James F. Horváth, Sr. and Thomas Nonn
for their unique and personal roles in and following the 1956 events
Photos:
Gabriella
Gyorffy and Susan Nonn
Welcome by
Ambassador Dr. Gábor Horváth Consul General
Kinga Göncz,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, James F. Horvath Sr.,
Thomas Nonn, William Jakab, and Gábor Földvári, Deputy Consul General
George Lovas,
President of the New York Area Coordinating
Committee for the Commemoration of the 1956 Revolution
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Michael Korda, author and Editor in Chief Emeritus of
Simon & Schuster, son of actress Gertrude Musgrove and
film production designer Vincent Korda and nephew of
director, producer Sir Alexander Korda
In 1956 he
was a student at Oxford. In October, with three other friends, he
drove to Budapest to bring badly needed medicine and to participate,
at street level, in the Revolution. In his book Journey to a
Revolution: A History and Memoir of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956,
Michael Korda writes with brilliant detail, suspense, occasional
humor, and sustained anger a vivid and richly detailed picture of the
events and the people. |
James F. Horvath
businessman...
...and Thomas
Nonn Painter received
The Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
bestowed by László Sólyom, President of the Republic of Hungary,
presented by Kinga Göncz, Minister of Foreign Affairs
A Magyar
Köztársasági Érdemrend Tisztikeresztje
 
James F.
Horváth, Sr. and Thomas Nonn with
The Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
"...for
preserving the memory and ideals of the
1956 Hungarian Revolution and Freedom Fight"
Thomas Nonn
thanked his wife Susan for her support
James F. Horvath
with his wife Isabelle...
...and with
Ambassador Gábor Horváth
William Jakab,
one of the supporters of the Exhibition
Kinga Göncz
with Agnes Heller
Susan Nonn
Carol Roth and
Rezso Hrosz
Agnes Niemetz
George Lang,
Restaurateur, Café des Artistes
and Peter Tufo, US Ambassador to Hungary (1997-2001)
Erich Lessing:
THE 1956 HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION
Fifty Years Later
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"Erich Lessing's
wonderful and deeply moving photographs of the Hungarian Revolution of
1956 are like brilliant windows illuminating the past. Nobody captured
better the faces of the "Freedom Fighters" (as they came to be known),
or the cold, gritty reality of the streets of Budapest during the
fighting fifty years ago that astonished the world"
Michael Korda
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The
exhibition open from September 14 until November 4, 2006
Tuesday - Saturday 12 - 6
Leica Gallery, 670 Broadway, NYC
The
exhibition was organized in conjunction with the
Hungarian Consulate General in New York, and has been generously
supported by AP International, the Hungarian Art Foundation,
the William Penn Association, and William Jakab
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