Architect. He worked for the industrial design enterprise IPARTERV, then as a private architect and head of the Doctorate of Liberal Arts programme at the University of Applied Arts, Budapest.

Minister of religion. He was ordained in 1973. A founder member of SZETA (the Support Foundation for the Poor) and the Wallenberg Association, he was a member of Parliament in 1990-94. He was director of the Capital City Social Centre and is now director-general of the John Wesley Theological College in Budapest.

Chemical engineer. He worked for the Chemical Trust of Borsod, then for the Institute of Chemical Industry in Veszprém. He left Hungary after the 1956 revolution. He was analytical engineer at EBV in Alsdorf (West-Germany). In 1961 he returned to his family in Hungary. After a short period of occasional works he was again employed as engineer first in a factory of enamals, later at the Borsod Chemical Works. In 1990 was elected vice mayor of Kazincbarcika.

He began studying at Veszprém Heavy Industrial University, but feared being caught up in the purges of the early 1950s. He left off his studies and took manual employment, frequently changing jobs. He wanted to defect from Hungary. In spring 1956, he met György Polyák, a former pilot.

Mechanical engineer. 1947-1949: political prisoner.

Party worker. 1945-1956: Party Secretary, Győr- Sopron and Szolnok Counties, later factory manager. He talks about the Hungarian Revolution and Attila Szigethy, one of the leaders of the revolution in the city of Győr.

Journalist, unskilled worker. 1956: member of the Revolutionary Committee of Csepel (an industrial district of Budapest). He left Hungary after the revolution and settled in the USA. 

Writer, poet and translator. He went to work in the Museum of the Labour Movement in 1967, but in 1968, he was arrested for conspiracy against the state, as a member of a Maoist group, banned from publication, and dismissed from his job. He became a freelance translator. In the 1970s he belonged to the Hungarian democratic opposition.

Forester. 1956: freedom fighter in the Revolution, November 1956-: left Hungary, 1957: enlisted by the English Intelligence Service to return to Hungary, 1958: sentenced to 8 years’ imprisonment.

Peasant, salesman. 1956: one of the leaders of the Revolutionary Committee of Berettyóújfalu Village. 1958: sentenced to 4 years’ imprisonment.