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CROWE B.A., LL.B Barrister Solicitor Real Estate - Wills Estate Powers of Attomey - Small Business "“5 ‘U CANADA Spoclalm: BLINDS, SHADES 8: SHUTTERS Both Lon and Leona faced their challenges along the way, but to come into the final 500 metres With the stands full of cheer- ing fans. knowing ‘that you are just about to com- plete the Boston Marathon; there is no feeling like it. 905-642-5555 The family left at the end of November, leaving Marta' s father behind because he When the Russtam came back they broke into the store and took the equip- ment. Marta's brother got hold of a pis- tol and walked home. 'My mother said, 'You have to go back or they will take you to Sibena'. He said he would rather die than go back.‘ 'l was gun a chic: than Tamas whallehfsaJu‘Mm ,I'omory. 'lbad a bmthet in the an force. When the revo- lution broke out the soldiers duappeued to then home towns. but my brother stayed because he was In charge of the spans equnpment store.’ Back in Hunguy, men we still being put to deatmfiheu in the revoluuon. 'You had to be I to be executed, and until 1962 they conunued executing those they had arrested when they reached then 18th bmhday,’ said Tamas. ‘My comm was sentenced at 17 and spent so: months on death row." 'Whenwegottoavfllagewewetenot sure if we were in Mama 0! Hungay.’ ltwasaCocaColatignononeofthe building: that finally convinced them were free. e Canadian overnment sup- phed an old Watld at H troop ca:- net to fly them out. ‘One engine ahet mother went unul three of the four were not worhng, so we flew back to lceland.’ Repam completed, they flew to Cteenland. 'The Americans were weanng wmtet umfomu whtch made them look like Russians and for a while we thought we'd been betrayed.’ Encapin was {taught with d 1'; many yea: later, Tamas still wakex'fin a cold tweat remembenn how evetyone had to jump on and of! t mm: taking them to the horde: to avoid captute by Russian mspecton. ‘It took about three days to make tt to the horde: and etttng across took two hours,‘ the Whit urch- Stouifvtlle testdent walled. Hnyy Tums was 14 when he fled 5W with In: aunt In November, m the courageous revolution 33. inn communm rule wu brutally crushed. 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'Dutc people at every stop had their bands El‘aying the Hunganan anthem,’ said film. ‘We stayed at the NATO base m Holland for a few months and the Qutch govemment and Canadian Red 'Mother paid a person smu r at one of the border towns; he w us across the fields and they were shooting up flares. We had white sheets that we threw over ourselves when the flares went up so It would look like snow.’ lldiko, whowas “Thad tosearch for food to sustain the famil . She was on her way home with a ' tin filled With sauerkraut when she was asked to fill gun belts with ammunition to use against the Russian troops, a task she accepted. 'When the Russians had I went home. To me it wasn’t eronc, it was exciting.’ As the situauon detenorated, Ildiko’s mother Visited a friend who said her family were leaving for Canada. 'My mother askedifwe could with them.’ They took the train had to crawl through deep snow to get to the border. When the revolution started, Ildiko Ugray-Hary was living with her sister, mother. grandmother and great- and- mother In an apartment in Bu apest. ‘Thtngs were happening all around us.’ was too sick to travel. They hooked up with another family and headed for the batder. ‘We could hear the Russian tanks and the soldiersalkmg talkmg .We had to run between the sear: ts and peop ple in vtllages opened up eir bac kyatds for us to go through so we couldky avoid the streets. Stoufi'vlllc