Dr. Tibor Eckhardt was a Hungarian statesman and diplomat. Eckhardt became a leader in the Hungarian exile communities and in the west, as the spokesman for the “country that could no longer speak for itself” first under Nazi control and then under Soviet occupation.
Sandor Alex Boldizsar, Sr. was born February 20, 1934, in Udvard, Hungary, one of eight children of Ethel Kovacs and Bela Boldizsar. He eventually made his way to Budapest to apprentice in a factory and at 22 years old, fought valiantly in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution where he was gravely wounded.
Dr. Béla Bognár was part of a small group of freedom fighters who fought on the streets from Üllői to Soroksári Roads from October 23 to November 9, 1956. On November 10, he went home to Zala to pick up his French dictionary, prayer book and ski boots.
Tibor Baranski was a Hungarian-American credited with saving more than 3,000 Hungarian Jewish women, men and children from the Nazis during the Holocaust. When he was 22, he was forced by the advancing Soviets to leave his seminary studies and return to Budapest.
In 1956, the Alexovics family fled Hungary to Switzerland, and after waiting 5 years for a US immigration visa, emigrated to the US. Károly Alexovics and his family settled in Los Angeles in 1961, where he worked in a sign shop as an engraver.
