Engineer, politician. 1990–1994 MP of Hungarian Democratic Forum, of the Alliance of Young Democrats, and as indipendent. 1998–2000: Minister of Trafic and Communication. Between 2000 and 2002 chief executive of the Hungarian Electrical Works.  

poet, translator and journalist. She was dropped from favour after she signed Charter 77 in 1979. An anonymous activist in the democratic opposition, unemployed since the change of system, apart from a four-year period in local government.

Doctor of chemistry. She began to work at the Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1972. At present she heads the Neuro-chemical Department at the Bio-molecular Chemical Institute.

Technician, POW. 1956: freedom fighter in the Revolution, 1957: sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment.

He was arrested by Soviet forces in December 1944 and brought forcibly to the Soviet Union where he spent 10 years in the Gulags. He returned to Hungary in 1955. He was guide and interpreter since the 1970s.

Medical doctor. 1956: took part in the post-revolutionary underground of intellectuals, sentenced to 3 years’ imprisonment.

Foreman. 1956: freedom fighter in the Revolution, sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment.

Worker. 1956: freedom fighter in the Revolution, sentenced to life, then to 15 years’ imprisonment.

Economist and sociologist. A theorist of the inner circle of the democratic opposition, he was placed on a banned list in the early 1970s and unable to publish. In the early 1990s, he took a political role and then joined the teaching staff of the Budapest University of Economic Sciences.

Agricultural engineer. 1956: Deputy Commander of the National Guard, University of Horticulture, Budapest. 1958: dismissed.