Architect. Professor, Technical University of Budapest and Hungarian Academy of Craft and Design.

Agricultural worker. Daughter of János Magyar who was executed for having fighted in the Revolution.

Literary historian, editor, author. 1949–1951: worked in the Ministry of Culture, as a senior civil servant, 1953: active as a writer in the intellectual opposition. 1956: member of the Revolutionary Committe of Hungarian Intellectuals.

Mechanic, engineer. 1956: Chairman, Workers’ Council of Ganz-Mávag Machine Works, 1957: sentenced to 8 years’ imprisonment.

Economist, teacher of Religion. Daughter of Tamás Lukách.

Cameraman. He joined the demonstration of 23 October 1956 in Budapest. In 1959 he prepared fly-sheets, was arrested, and condemned to 3 year imprisonment. In 1974 he graduated from the College of Theatre and Film Arts. He worked for the Hungarian Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio between 1975 and 1994. He is the director of several documentaries on the 1956 revolution.

Historian of philosophy, university professor. Closely connected with the hard core of the democratic opposition, she took part in several protests, which led to her professional activity being curtailed.

Engineer. 1944: member of the anti-fascist resistance, 1956: member of the Revolutionary Committee of Hungarian Intellectuals, proposed the declaration of the neutrality of Hungary. 1957: settled in Sweden.

Writer, editor. He talks about the role of the Writers’ Union during and after the Revolution.

Turner. 1956: chairman of a factory workers’ council, 1958: sentenced to 4 years’ imprisonment.