CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Zahony, Tibor Thomas |
|---|---|
| Title | Children Refugees of 1956: The Columbia University Research Project on Hungary (CURPH) |
| Summary | The Columbia University Research Project on Hungary (CURPH) was an interview project that sought to learn about life behind the Iron Curtain by interviewing refugees that had escaped Hungary following the repressed Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Within the broader CURPH, a selection of interviews exclusively with children from seven to seventeen years of age is the primary focus of this thesis. The answers these children provided in the interviews helped in creating an image of life in Hungary before the Revolution. After a background of events in Hungary, the refugee crisis that ensued, an examination of Oral History as a practice, including its limitations in regards to the CURPH, an analysis of the interviews is offered. The CURPH is a lasting testament to the Cold War, the early stages of Oral History as a methodology and most importantly, to the voices of the children that left their homeland. |
| Supervisor | Peto, Andrea |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/zahony_tibor.pdf |
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