The event has particular poignancy for me personally. and particular relevance to the situation in Europe today. My father was the last prewar American Minister to Hungary and. after the war. I established the American Consulate General in Bratislava. Czechoslovakia. formerly called Pozony when capital of Hungary. Then at the time of the Hungarian revolution. I was at the bridge at Andau and spent a year in Austria as Vice President of the International Rescue Committee charged with helping Hungarian refugees. Throughout this time I saw both high hope and deep despair. The end of World War II lifted the yoke of Nazi occupation from Central Europe.
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