Saturday, May 21, 2022

HUNGARIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS FEDERATION and the ALBA REGIA CHAPEL

HUNGARIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS ORG 

Excerpt: Hungarian Freedom Fighters Federation, is a non profit established to maintain the Alba Regia Chapel and surrounding memorial park in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.  The chapel is the only independent and non-denominational Hungarian church in the United States.  It is dedicated to the many Hungarian and American heroes who fought for freedom throughout the histories of both great countries.

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Ilona Maria Gyorik, together with her husband, Jozsef and their four children, fled Hungary during the 1956 uprising against Soviet occupation. After narrowly escaping death, when Mrs. Gyorik reached Austrian soil, she vowed to devote the rest of her life to the service of mankind.