| Summary: | Records of this digital collection were assembled to document the work of the UN Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary established on January 10, 1957 by the United Nations General Assembly for the purpose of investigating the 1956 Hungarian revolution.
Principal contributor(s): United Nations Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary
Witness ZZ, a typist, made a statement about the atrocities committed by Soviet soldiers she witnessed on 4 November. Witness AAA worked as a stenographer for the ÁVH, and later at the disciplinary section of the police. She talked about the conditions of the ÁVH prison, the procedures used by the ÁVH and police brutality. Further witnesses this afternoon were: BBB, a composer and music critic; CCC, a deputy-commander of the freedom fighters of Buda, one of those who seized the equipment and archives of the ÁVH and arrested the chief prosecutor of the Rákosi regime, Gyula Alapi; DDD, a prosecutor in the Chief Prosecutor's office from March to December 1956; EEE, a retired major, who made a statement about the workers and peasants before and during the revolution; FFF, secretary of the workers' council in Csepel, GGG and György Sebestyén, editor of the literary section of Magyar Nemzet.
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