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unusual facts about Imre: A Memorandum


Imre: A Memorandum

Although Imre: A Memorandum is not the first American gay novel (Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania by Bayard Taylor 1870 precedes it), it is considered to be of some importance, as it is the first such with a happy ending.


Dohány Street Synagogue

In memory of those who had died, there is a memorial by the sculptor, Imre Varga, depicting a weeping willow with the names and tattoo numbers of the dead and disappeared just behind the Synagogue, in the Raoul Wallenberg Holocaust Memorial Park.

Imre Festetics

Count Imre Festetics de Tolna (Simaság, 1764 – Kőszeg, 1847) was a noble landowner and geneticist.

Imre Pozsgay

Jointly with Otto von Habsburg, Imre Pozsgay was the sponsor of the Pan-European Picnic of 19 August 1989, where hundreds of East Germans who were visiting Hungary were able to cross the previously impenetrable Iron Curtain into Austria.

Kétegyháza

István Mudin – athlete, flagbearer of Hungary at the 1908 Olympics, older brother of Imre

Meir Ash

Meir Eisenstaedter (1780–1852), author of Imre Esh and student of the Chasam Sofer

Socialist Union of Central-Eastern Europe

As of the late 1950s and early 1960s, the executive committee of SUCEE consisted of Zygmunt Zaremba (chairman), Brūno Kalniņš (vice chairman), Živko Topalović (vice chairman), Vilém Bernard (secretary) and Imre Szelig (treasurer).

The Mark of the Wolfman

“Paul” was an homage to the Pope at the time, Paul VI, and “Naschy” was inspired by a well-known Hungarian Olympic athlete, Imre Nagy.


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