Catafalque for 1989 Reburial of Imre Nagy and Colleagues

Designed by László Rajk and Gábor Bachman, the catafalque for the 1989 public reburial of Imre Nagy and colleagues was erected on the steps of the Műcsarnok (Kunsthalle) museum of modern art on Budapest's Heroes' Square. Hundreds of thousands of mourners attended this theatrical event to rebury the martyrs of the 1956 Revolution and, with them, Communism itself.

There were six coffins laid out on the catafalque. Five contained the remains of former Prime Minister Imre Nagy, military leader Pál Maléter, the journalists Miklós Gimes and Géza Losonczy, and lawyer József Szilágyi, all of whom had been secretly buried at Plot 301 in Budapest's New Public Cemetery in the early 1960s. The sixth coffin was empty, to symbolize all the unnamed victims of the 1956 Revolution.

Photo from Fortepan, an online archive of twentieth-century amateur photography, initiated by OSA in 2010.