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I WILL APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT (PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT) HUNGARIAN REFUGEES TELL OF HOPE FOR THE FUTURE; RECALL STORIES OF REVOLT Mutual Federal Saving & Loan Association Of Atlanta 3Vi% Interest On Savings Accounts MEMBER FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN . INSURANCE CORPORATION Safety Of Your Savings Insured Up To $10,000.00 205 Auburn Ave., N. E. JA. 3-8282 Atlanta, Ga. By Carl Balcerak (Staff Writer, N.C.W.C. News Service) CAMP KILMER, N. J.—“We were carrying empty machine guns and walking to our apart ment in Budapest, I heard a shot from a building across the steet and my brother fell at my side.” A 30-year-old Hungarian refu gee related this account of the rebellion in his homeland. He ask ed that he be referred to only as Horvat, to prevent reprisals against his parents, brother and sister who remain in Hungary. Horvat said his brother was wounded in the side and that he knelt beside him until an am bulance with Hungarian Freedom Fighters arrived to take him to the hospital. “That is the last I saw of him,” said the former locksmith. He said his 17-vear-old brother had been shot down after a cease fire had been ordered in the city. Horvat is one of the 135 refu gees on the first two planes to arrive in the U.S. He was spon sored by the Catholic Relief Serv ices—National Catholic Welfare Conference as were 43 other per sons aboard the two planes. A few hours after his brother was wounded Horvat learned that the Hungarian security police were looking for him. A friend hid him in a factory until he could make his escape by hiding in a truck headed for the Austri an border to obtain medical sup plies. Horvat arrived in Austria on October 30. His only possessions were the clothes he wore. During the six days that he fought in Budapest, Horvat said, he lead a small group of rebels who had to raid the ammunition depots of Russian garrisons in or der to keep supplied with, am munition. “The most deaths occurred on October 26,” he said, “when the Soviet tanks came rolling in. There was no one on the streets, but the tanks poured shells and bullets into the homes and killed scores of persons—mostly women and children.” “I am grateful to be in this country,” Horvat stated, “but if I knew we could get enough weap ons to continue our fight for free dom, I would go back to Hungary. Without weapons we can do nothing.” Horvat has no relatives in the U.S. and is waiting for CRS- NCWC to assign him to a home and a job. » Another refugee who took part in the Hungarian fighting was 19- year-old Antal Szemerei. He ar rived here with his parents, Janos Szemerei, 57, and his, wife Mag dalena, 55. CRS-NCWC has arranged for the family to live with Mrs. Szem- erei’s sister, Mrs. Anna Gehler of Chicago. Mr. Szemerei was a mechanic and operated a motorboat in Gyoer, He and his wife left Gy- oer on November 9. They travel ed 35 miles by boat, then walked about 20 miles to the Austrian border. Antal was not with them; he escaped by another route. Antal is a tall, brown-haired youth. As he told about his part in the revolt the expression in his eyes conveyed what he was think ing: I have grown mature too soon. “Hungarian youth wanted free dom, not bloodshed,” he said. “When we started to take down the red flags from public build ing in Gyoer, the security police arrived and began shooting. Many of my friends were killed.” “Persons from 10 to 60 took part in the fighting. We got bur wagons by attacking the police. I saw one teen-age girl try to snatch some ammunition from a Russian tank. She was riddled by Soviet bullets.” Antal and five companions were stopped at night by security po lice while distributing leaflets protesting against Soviet aggres sion. After eluding the police, Antal walked across the border into Austria. He was reunited with his parents in the Paxmanedm Semi nary in Vienna. A factory worker in Gyoer, An tal said that he intends to study in the U.S. and become an en gineer. Does he hate the Russians? Well, here is his reply: “You can’t hate beasts. You can only pity them.” Alice Slezak. 23, a girl who tried to crack the iron curtain for six years, finally made it. She ar rived here with her mother, but her father remained in Budapest. Alice told how the communists tried to crack the iron curtain for Red ideology after the Sacred Heart Academy in Budapest was taken over by the Soviets in 1949. She was president of a student study group. Alice made her first attempt to escape in February, 1951, with several other students. When they were within sight of the barbed wire at the border, one of the girls stepped on a mine. The ex plosion blew off her foot at the ankle. The border guards arrived and took the girls into custody. Last spring, Alice applied for admission to the medical universi ty. She has had a year of premed- ipal training. On November 1 she and her mother began walking toward the border. They hitched a ride on the truck and were left off at Magyarovar, near the Austrian border. Seek ing shelter for the night, they went to the home of a woman ac quaintance, but she refused to take them for fear of reprisals from the security police. Finally, they found refugee in a bakery shop. Next day the baker rode ahead of them on his bicycle and guided them within sight of the border. When they saw an Austrian border guard, they knew they were free. CRS-NCWC has arranged for Alice to stay in Chicago at the home of her father’s uncle, John Slezak. 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