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Simon, Péter

Businessman. He was arrested in 1968 on a charge of conspiracy against the state and sentenced to eight months' imprisonment in the Pór trial, for participating in left-wing organization. He was expelled from the University of Economics, where he was a third-year finance student, but a presidential pardon meant that the legal sanctions associated with his sentence were lifted in 1971. He graduated from the Budapest College of Commerce and Catering in 1973.

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.

Sára, Sándor

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.

Rózsás, János

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.

Rózsa T. Endre

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. 

Rónai, Tamás

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.

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