Building Peaceful Bridges (BPB) is excited to welcome Bela Suhayda at our next Reading Refuge Book Club, Wednesday, March 30th at 7:00 pm to discuss his book, From Tyranny to Liberty, A Personal Story.

Bela authored From Tyranny to Liberty, a harrowing story of his family’s escape from their Hungarian homeland after the Communist Russia invasion of 1956. Bela walks us through their journey from Hungary to resettlement in America as a Refugee.

We can see with the Ukrainian crisis how quickly a country’s citizens become refugees. There are now over 700,000 Ukrainian refugees.

Bela was an educator at East Aurora H.S. in Aurora Il. for 30 years (Biology, Earth Science, Chemistry, and General Sciences). He coached Wrestling and Soccer during these years and founded the Fox Valley Kickers Youth Soccer Club in 1991.