Hungarian Revolution

: My family — father, 36, mother, 32, brother, 4, and I, a 7-year-old — left Budapest on Nov. 13 with the clothes on our backs and what we could carry, according to Toronto Star. We crossed the border into Austria the next day. In early November that year, the West decided not to intervene in the Hungarian revolution, and the Soviet troops came flooding over the border. A total of 200,000 refugees fled Hungary. There were only two countries accepting Hungarian refugees without quotas: Canada and Venezuela. After spending a week in a refugee camp, we made it to Vienna, where my parents chose Canada as our destination. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.