On September 28-29, 2006, the Embassies of Australia, Canada, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the USA, plus the International Committee of the Red Cross, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and the International Center for Democratic Transition, with the cooperation of the Embassies of Denmark and the United Kingdom, sponsored a conference entitled: "1956 and Hungary: The Memory of Eyewitnesses - In Search of Freedom and Democracy" at the Italian Institute of Culture in Budapest. (Embassy photos by Attila Németh and Balázs Monostori)