HUNGARIAN COUNT COMING TO N.Z.
EXPERIENCES UNDER COMMUNISTS (Rec. 10 pm.) PERTH, August 3. Count John Esterhazy, who is travelling to New Zealand as a displaced person, says he was only 17 when toe Communists took over complete control of his country early in 1947.
Learning from a friend that he and his father were to be arrested in 48 hours, he urged his father to escape with him to Switzerland, but without success. He then walked from his home in Budapest to the Swiss border. Later he learned that his father had been arrested with Cardinal Mindszenty and Prince Esterhazy, Hungary’s richest pre-war landowner. All the family possession and titles were confiscated by the Communists. His mother and younger sister are still living in Hungary. After his arrival in Switzerland, Count Esterhazy took an interest in hotel management, but because everybody in Switzerland seemed afraid of war he decided to migrate to New Zealand.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26491, 4 August 1951, Page 7
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