A Magyar Szabadság Éve

The patrons of the Memorial Committee

Mária Wittner

freedom fighter

László Kövér

Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary

Chairperson and co-chairperson of the Memorial Committee

Mária Schmidt

Government Commissioner of the Memorial Year of the 1956 Revolution

Zoltán Balog

Minister of Human Capacities

The permanent members of The Memorial Committee

Benedek Varga

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László Tüske

Director General of the National Széchényi Library

Gábor Zongor

Secretary-General of the National Association of Local Governments / Councils

Péter Boross

President of the National Memorial and Piety Committee

György Fekete

President of the Hungarian Academy of Arts

László Lovász

president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Jenő Megyesy

Senior Advisor to the Hungarian Prime Minister

Nándor Csepreghy

Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Deputy Minister, Prime Minister’s Office

Tamás Vargha

Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, Ministry of Defence

István Íjgyártó

Minister of State for Cultural Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Pál Völner

Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, Ministry of Justice

Károly Kontrát

He was born in 1956, he is a lawyer and politician. He earned his degree at the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University. He passed his bar examination in 1985. From 1981 to 1993 he was the legal...

Bence Rétvári

Parliamentary State Secretary at the Ministry of Human Capacities

The members of the historian team

László Tőkéczki

Associate professor and head of department at Eötvös Loránd University

István Kovács

Historian, polonist and previous Consul General of Krakow

Frigyes Kahler

Retired Presiding Judge

Attila Horváth

Lecturer of Pázmány Péter Catholic University

András Balogh

academic, Prof. Emeritus of Eötvös Loránd University

Vilmos Kovács

Commander of the Ministry of Defence Military History Institute and Museum

Zsuzsanna Mikó

Director General of the National Archives of Hungary

Sándor Szakály

Director General of VERITAS Research Institute for History

Réka Földváryné Kiss

Chairperson of  Committee of National Remembrance

Organizations deputing permanent members

The Association of Hungarian Political Prisoners

Committee for Historical Justice

Association Of Freedom Fighters 1956

The Association of 1956

1956 ‘Pest Boys’ Foundation

1956 Foundation

Hungarian Community of Political Convicts from 1945 to 56

Corvin Alley Fellowship

National 1956 Association of the Hungarian Countryside

World Federation of Hungarians of 1956

The Recsk Association

The Association of Former Hungarian Political Prisoners and Forced Labourers in the Soviet Union

Organizations deputing permanent members