Kovács, András Gyula
Taxi driver. 1956: Joined the József Dudás group. 1957: settled in Australia.
Taxi driver. 1956: Joined the József Dudás group. 1957: settled in Australia.
Sociologist. He took part in the attempts to reform the communist youth movement in the 1970s. He worked for the Kossuth Publishing House. He participated in several underground seminars of the democratic opposition. In 1977 he published a samizdat entitled "Marx in the fourth decade" after which he lost his job. He contributed to the Bibó Memorial Book, signed the Charta petition. After the political transition he became lecturer at Loránd Eötvös University and at the Central European University.
Engineer, transactor. His parents moved to the Soviet Union in the 1930s. They were arrested and he lived with her mother in a labour camp until 1945. They returned to Hungary in 1959. He graduated in engineering and worked for the lamp factory Egyesült Izzó (later Tungsram) for decades.
Worker, army officer. 1956: Commander, National Guard of Kispest (a district of Budapest), sentenced to death, then to 15 years’ imprisonment.
Teacher, writer. 1956: worked for the newspaper Magyar Függetlenség, member of a revolutionary committee.
Actress and writer. She joined Universitas in 1967 and worked for Kassák House Studio in 1969-76. She then joined the Apartment Theatre and emigrated with the company to Paris in 1976. She moved to New York in 1977, and repatriated in 2002.
Lawyer. 1956: Founder member of the student organization MEFESZ in Szeged. 1957: Arrested. 1959: Sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment. 1990-94: Deputy mayor of Balassagyarmat. 1996-99: Adviser to the prime minister.
Photographer. Has exhibited photos regularly with Gyula Lőrinczy and Zoltán Nagy since mid-1960s. Was a member of Muskátli Gallery group of avant-garde artists. Left country in 1967 and lived in France, Switzerland and West Germany, spending several years in a commune. Abandoned photography for esoteric subjects and astronomy.
and Kolompár, Erzsébet (b. 1957). Daughters of Mátyás Kolompár who was executed in 1957 for his activities in the Hungarian Revolution.
Sociologist. One of the broader circle of supporters of the democratic opposition and staff member of the Cooperative Research Institute.