Switzerland, land of refuge, is a variable reality during history. From the first Protestant refugees from Saint-Barthélemy in the 16th century to the Ukrainian families of our present time. This welcome does not tell the trajectories of those who tear out their history, to their first territory. In this series, living history explores these new lives of many anonymous and some celebrities in Switzerland for the best, but not always.
1956, a wind of freedom blows on part of Europe is after the death of Stalin. We are more asking socialism that promised a lot. On October 23, more than 10,000 people demonstrated in Budapest, a new government was appointed. But on November 4, a thousand Soviet tanks entered the city to remind you that the hour of political autonomy is not yet on the agenda. The repression makes more than 2,500 people dead on the Hungarian side, 700 Soviet side. For 200,000 Hungarian and Hungarian, this is the exodus. Ten thousand refugees find refuge in Switzerland. Among them, Agota Kristof, who arrived in Switzerland in 1956 with her husband and daughter, elaborates in exile a literature where the brutality of the uprooting occupies a central place.
1956, a wind of freedom blows on part of Europe is after the death of Stalin. We are more asking socialism that promised a lot. On October 23, more than 10,000 people demonstrated in Budapest, a new government was appointed. But on November 4, a thousand Soviet tanks entered the city to remind you that the hour of political autonomy is not yet on the agenda. The repression makes more than 2,500 people dead on the Hungarian side, 700 Soviet side. For 200,000 Hungarian and Hungarian, this is the exodus. Ten thousand refugees find refuge in Switzerland. Among them, Agota Kristof, who arrived in Switzerland in 1956 with her husband and daughter, elaborates in exile a literature where the brutality of the uprooting occupies a central place.
We follow her in her itinerary with Tiphaine Robert Historienne and specialist in Hungarian immigration in Switzerland, at the microphone of Pierre Jenny.
https://www.jfb.hu/lettres/tiphaine-robert-des-migrants-et-des-revenants
