Refugees in Yugoslavia in November 1956

Abstract

At the end of November 1956 there were about 400 refugees in Yugoslavia, who had left Hungary. The governments of the two countries concerned set up and ran a joint committee to prepare and manage the settlement of their status. This paper elaborates on the related information based on the material found in the National Archives of Hungary. It presents the documents and minutes compiled at that time, the main data of the list of those who returned later, the returned military equipment, and the measures ordered to be taken by the Hungarian Border Guard concerning the handover of documents and the transfer of persons.
It also points out some details of the dates of and reasons for the people fleeing, and about the military equipment they took with them.