Sebes, Sándor
Bank clerk, pre-1945 illegal communist. Took part in the Spanish Civil War and in the anti-fascist resistance in France, 1945-: party functionary, civil servant. 1953–1970: Deputy Minister of Internal Trade.
Bank clerk, pre-1945 illegal communist. Took part in the Spanish Civil War and in the anti-fascist resistance in France, 1945-: party functionary, civil servant. 1953–1970: Deputy Minister of Internal Trade.
Teacher. 1956: member of the Revolutionary Committee of Debrecen University as a university student, sentenced to 3 years’ imprisonment.
Journalist, writer, translator. 1956: settled in the UK, worked for the Hungarian Section of BBC and for Radio Free Europe.
Journalist, police officer. 1956: member of the Revolutionary Committee, Ministry of the Interior, dismissed.
Cameraman and film director. He graduated from the Budapest College of Theatre and Cinema in 1957 as a cinematographer. He played an important part in the 1960s and 1970s in advancing Hungarian cinema, as a prominent film maker of his generation with a special eye. He made several historical documentaries in the 1980s. In 1993, he began a seven-year term as president of Duna Television.
typist and bookkeeper. He was arrested by the Soviets after World War II for having belonged to the Levente youth movement and sentenced by a Soviet military court in 1946 to 10 years' forced labour and perpetual exile. He served his sentence in 16 labour camps, in one of which, in Kazakhstan, he was with Solzhenitsyn. He was freed under an amnesty in 1953, after Stalin's death, and returned to Hungary.
Art historian, journalist. He attended university courses in Wien and in Paris, he graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Loránd Eötvös University. He worked for the Hungarian Pen Club. He was editor of the Hungarian Radio since 1978. 1980-1984: editor-in-chief of the radio program Gondolatjel.
Technical inspector. He obtained a trade certificate as a construction-industry technician in 1956 in Debrecen, while also learning the electrician's trade. He went to work for the Agrober Enterprise, where he was also secretary of the Communist Youth League for a time. He took part in the Debrecen jazz scene in the 1950s and 1960s. At the end of the 1950s he began to work as a lighting engineer at the Csokonai Theatre in Debrecen.
Joiner, writer, librarian. 1940s: took part in the anti-fascist resistance in France.
Specialist for handicapped children. Daughter of László Regéczy-Nagy, army officer, translator. 1956: took part in the post-revolutionary political resistance with István Bibó and Árpád Göncz, 1958: sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment.