Kocsis, György
Shoemaker. He founded and led the Jazz Club in Szombathely. He was characteristic member of the hippy gang in the 1970s.
Shoemaker. He founded and led the Jazz Club in Szombathely. He was characteristic member of the hippy gang in the 1970s.
Engineer. 1956: Deputy Chairman, Revolutionary Council of Szolnok County, sentenced to 6 years’ imprisonment.
Engineer. 1956: Chairman, Workers’ Council of Borsod County, 1958: sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment.
Lawyer, public administration expert, civil servant.
Roofer. 1956: freedom fighter in the Hungarian Revolution, 1957: sentenced to 7 years’ then to 5 years’ imprisonment.
Physician. He was elected chairman of the Militray Committee at his corps in Hódmezővásárhely during the 1956 revolution. In 1957 he was condemned to seven year imprisonment. He worked as general practitioner later. He was founding member of the Committee for Historical Justice and of the Alliance of Free Democrats.
Architect, politician. Son of the lawyer and politician Sándor Keresztes who was one of the founders of the Democratic People's Party in 1944 and of the Christian Democratic People's Party in 1989, MP between 1994 and 1998, 1990-1994 ambassador in Vatican City of the Republic of Hungary.
Journalist, political scientist, university professor. 1947–1955: worked for the newspaper Szabad Nép, 1956: edited the newspaper Magyar Szabadság and an underground newspaper Október Huszonharmadika, 1957: settled in Paris, one of the founders, Imre Nagy Institute of Brussels.
Engineer, inventor. 1956: took part in the students’ revolutionary movement.
Panel-beater. Deported from Békásmegyer to Billigheim, West Germany, in 1946 because of his family’s Swabian (Hungarian-German) origins. Labourer in a local brickworks. From 1960, panel-beater at NSU motor-cycle factory and later Audi car factory, becoming foreman in 1964. Regained Hungarian citizenship in 2000 and spends most of year in Hungary.