Technician, POW. 1956: freedom fighter in the Revolution, 1957: sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment.

He was arrested by Soviet forces in December 1944 and brought forcibly to the Soviet Union where he spent 10 years in the Gulags. He returned to Hungary in 1955. He was guide and interpreter since the 1970s.

Medical doctor. 1956: took part in the post-revolutionary underground of intellectuals, sentenced to 3 years’ imprisonment.

Foreman. 1956: freedom fighter in the Revolution, sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment.

Worker. 1956: freedom fighter in the Revolution, sentenced to life, then to 15 years’ imprisonment.

Economist and sociologist. A theorist of the inner circle of the democratic opposition, he was placed on a banned list in the early 1970s and unable to publish. In the early 1990s, he took a political role and then joined the teaching staff of the Budapest University of Economic Sciences.

Agricultural engineer. 1956: Deputy Commander of the National Guard, University of Horticulture, Budapest. 1958: dismissed.

Historian. His field of interest is the Hungarian and international labour movement. He was member of the Socialdemocratic Party. After the 1956 revolution he joined the newly founded communist party. 1958 he was dismissed from the Institute of Party History and moved to the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was engaged in re-organizing the socialdemocratic movement in the course of the political transition of 1989.

Polish journalist. 1956: reported from New York about the United Nations General Assembly for the newspaper Zycie Warszawy.

Director of cartoons, graphic, cultural historian, writer and politician. He was chairman of the Committee of the National Fund for Culture.