A commemoration was held in honor of former Danish diplomat Povl Bang-Jensen, a martyr of the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, at the monument erected in his memory at plot 301 in the Rákoskeresztúr cemetery in Budapest.
The body of the diplomat, who had died under mysterious circumstances, was found in a park in New York 60 years ago today.
The high-ranking UN official became the target of government retaliation for protecting Hungarian witnesses of the 1956 revolution and their families.
Bang-Jensen saved hundreds of Hungarians by refusing to turn over information he had on their family members who had fled the country.
MTI
