On the occasion of his visit to New York, the Director General of the Institute for Hungarian Studies, Gábor Horváth-Lugossy, made a special request to visit these two memorial sites. We would like to thank the Hungarian Consulate for organizing the wreath-laying ceremony on such short notice. Our Director General, accompanied by Péter B. Nagy, MKB Consul, laid the wreath of remembrance at the 1956 Revolution Memorial.

Unveiled in Riverside Park, Manhattan in 2016, the memorial depicts the constellation on October 23rd on a granite disk. Erected to mark the 60th anniversary, the memorial's message is that the commitment and rock-solid faith of the boys of Pest gave strength to the fight against the overwhelming Soviet troops. Due to the death-defying courage of a nation that turned to the heavens, "the star is rising, the dawn is breaking" and today there is a free Hungary proud of its heroes.

At the end of the trip of the Institute for Hungarian Studies to the United States, Gábor Horváth-Lugossy, Miklós Makoldi and Endre Neparáczki visited the former home of Béla Bartók, who never renounced his homeland, and laid a wreath of our Institute at the memorial plaque in honour of the world-famous composer.