56films documentary filmmaking

Andrea Lauer Rice and Réka Pigniczky co-founded the Memory Project, a community-wide initiative, in 2015. Both daughters of 1956-ers, Andrea and Réka have worked together for the past 20 years. The Memory Project is their joint project to help document and record the personal stories of Hungarians who emigrated to the United States after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and as displaced persons after World War II. Within the past five years, they expanded their outreach to include Hungarian Americans with fascinating stories about their upbringing and other inspirational and unique interviews with Hungarians across the world. 

The interviews are published, with minimal editing, to the Memory Project visual history archive. Interviews last between 45 minutes to two hours, and in most cases, the interviewees have never before told their stories on camera. The Memory Project currently holds 145 interviews.

For the interviews please visit memoryproject.online