Born in 1890 in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Imre Latkóczy became a lawyer and joined the Hungarian Social Democrats Party after the First World War. Prior to 1956, Imre Latkóczy was imprisoned by Hungary’s brutal communist regime only to be released a few months before the revolution.
Éva Horváth Kiss was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1913 to Iván Horváth and Erzsébet Szőke. Although she aspired to become a doctor, her family would only give her permission to become a pharmacist. Éva was married to Dr. Elemér Kiss, originally from Szentgotthárd, Hungary. Elemér was a lawyer in Hungary, who worked at the Hungarian National Bank.
Dr. Kerenyi lived through WWII which had a profound impact on him. At the age of 10, his father was taken as a political prisoner to serve in a Siberian labor camp for ten years. Shortly after he returned, he made the agonizing choice to leave his reunited family and risk his life fleeing the country in search of freedom in the wake of the 1956 Hungarian revolution.
Siblings Steve (1941), Attila (1943) and Magda (1945) Kaloz grew up together in Tiszaföldvár, Hungary in the late 1940s and early 1950s. They lived in a small town where their father, Istvan was a successful local businessman - until after WWII, when the regime confiscated all the family’s holdings and their business.
Alexander Haraszti was a physician/surgeon and Baptist minister. He was born in Soltvadkert, Hungary on March 2, 1920; and died in Atlanta, Georgia on January 16, 1998. He married Rosalie Ban of Orgovany, Hungary in 1943.
László Fülöp was born Fülöp László György Andor on November 13, 1934 in Tiszakécske, Hungary, one of four children. Ágnes Fülöp was born and raised in Budapest. She spent the aftermath of the Revolution living under the Kádár regime, raising two children.
Ed and Aranka "Goldie" Fodor met at work in post-World World II Hungary. She was a secretary and he was a bookkeeper at a children’s clothing manufacturer in Budapest. Ed was born in Szeged in August 1934 and Goldie was born in Baja in the same year.
László Béla Felföldi sought a more democratic political system and freedom from Soviet oppression, fleeing his homeland at the age of 17 along with 200,000 Hungarians to neighboring Austria.
Joseph Mihaly Ertavy was born on September 2, 1930 in Budapest. As a young teen, he experienced the terror and deprivation of WWII and the death of his beloved father. Katalin Ertavy-Barath was born on September 24, 1922 in Gyula, on the Great Plains of Southeast Hungary.
Éder Árpád József was born in 1937 in (what is today) Bucharest. Romania. At an early age, his family moved to Csepel, Hungary. During the horrific years of communist occupation, he found solace in sports. He was the second string goal keeper for the Hungarian National Soccer Team...
