Psychologist. He was active in the organization of demonstrations on 23 October 1956, joined the Natioanal Guard, and worked for the daily Népszava during the revolution. He left Hungary and settled in London. He studied in Oxford and at the University College London. He was trained in psychoanalysis and worked as therapist. In 2005 he became the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Psychotherapy. In 2000 he returned to Hungary.

Milling machine operator. He defected to Austria in 1956 and then emigrated to Australia in 1957. He lives in Sydney as a retired taxi driver.

Benedictine monk and teacher. He taught in Budapest after the war but was arrested in 1946 and sentenced to ten years as a prisoner of war by a Soviet military court. He returned home at the end of 1955 and then worked at a sawmill and in the laundries of Budapest hospitals.

After completing secondary school, he taught himself to paint and then became in the 1970s an editor of the samizdat publication Családunk (Our Family), which brought frequent harassment by the police. In 1971 his father (the physician and nature healer Dr Andor Oláh) and his family were charged with conspiracy against the state and then ordered by the court to be kept under psychological observation and given treatment.

Technical instructor. He worked in several engineering works as a skilled worker and later as an instructor. At present he is a machine-tool calibrator. He also worked in the 1960s as a waiter at the Csili Restaurant in the Pesterzsébet Vasas House of Culture. As a young man, he was a certified soccer player with the ESMTK team.

Journalist. She became active in the Social Democratic Party in 1937, and was deported to Auschwitz in June 1944. In 1945, she became a department head of the Debrecen organization of the Hungarian Communist Party, and in 1952 head of the Agitation and Propaganda Department of Kecskemét Town Party Committee. She went to work at the Budapest party centre in 1955.

Transactor. Took part in the Spanish Civil War and in the anti-fascist resistance. 1949–1952: political prisoner, 1956: freedom fighter in the Revolution.

Psychoanalyst, specialist writer. Having graduated in psychology, philosophy and sociology at the Loránd Eötvös University of Sciences in Budapest, she joined the staff of the Institute of Education Studies, and after her dismissal from there, became an unskilled textile worker. In 1956 she became an official in the Ministry of Education, and then in 1958 a secondary school teacher. She was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in the Mérei Trial in 1959.

Chemical technician. 1956: member of the National Guard, then active in the post-revolutionary underground, sentenced to 6 years’ imprisonment.

Transylvanian, engineer. 1956: as a university student sentenced to 1 year’ imprisonment on charges related to the Hungarian Revolution.