Fisch, O. Róbert
Physician. 1956: took part in rescuing of the wounded, left Hungary.
Physician. 1956: took part in rescuing of the wounded, left Hungary.
Army officer, engineer, lecturer. 1956: Deputy Chairman, Workers’ Council of Borsod County, sentenced to 1 year’ imprisonment.
Historian and journalist. He was imprisoned in 1932–3 for illegal communist activity. He worked with the poet Attila József as founder editor of Szép Szó, and on the staff of Szocializmus and the Social Democratic paper Népszava. In 1938, he was charged with incitement for one of his pieces, but fled to France. Fejtő worked in 1944–7 and 1950–74 as an East European commentator for the French news agency AFP. In 1947–9, he headed the press bureau at the Hungarian Embassy in Paris.
Legal adviser. 1956: initiator and organizer of the Revolutionary Radio of the Town of Szolnok, sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment.
Publicist, editor. 1962–1989: worked for the weekly Élet és Irodalom.
Lawyer, clerk. 1956: initiated moves to help political prisoners to escape, 1958: sentenced to life imprisonment.
Journalist, editor. 1940–1944: member of the anti-fascist underground, 1950–1953: interned in the Recsk Labour Camp, 1956: worked for the newspaper Magyar Függetlenség, 1957: settled in Canada.
Acrobat, teacher. 1956: eye-witness of the Hungarian Revolution, settled in Germany.
Teacher, physicist. 1956: member of the National Council, Town of Mosonmagyaróvár, sentenced to 6 years’ imprisonment.
Transylvanian, mechanic engineer. 1956: one of the organizers of a student demonstration in Romania, sentenced to 6 years’ imprisonment. Deputy Chairman, Council of Temes County.