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Apró, József

Toolmaker. 1955–6: member of Petőfi Circle. Head of Kispest national guard in 1956. Left country in December and settled in Melbourne, Australia. Returned with his family in 2001.

Andorka, Rudolf

Lawyer, sociologist, university professor. Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 1956: active in the Revolutionary Committee of Hungarian Intellectuals, 1957: sentenced to 5 months’ imprisonment, 1984-: Head of Sociology Department, 1991-: Rector at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences.

Almási (Almásy), László

Photographer. He opened a studio in Király utca in 1954. During the '56 Revolution he toured the Budapest streets taking photographs for Western newspapers. He defected in 1957. After short periods in Vienna and Germany, he left for the United States in 1959, where he worked mainly in laboratories, before repatriating in 2002.

Angyal, Ádám

Economist. Angyal was born in France, his family moved to Hungary after WWII. Between 1966 and 1989 he worked for Ganz Danubius Dockyard, where he was executive director since 1982. He was university professor at Budapest University of Economics (later Corvinus University) since 1991. In 1989 he was party secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party in the 1th district of Budapest, and became member of the Central Financial Controlling Board of the party.

Abod, László

Theologian, sociologist. 1946–1950: head of a youth movement. 1956: director in a factory, member of the Central Workers’ Council of Budapest, sentenced to 8 years’ imprisonment.

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