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Hungarian medical student at Pecs University during Hungarian Uprising in Hungarian People's Republic, 10/1956-11/1956; escaped from Hungary to GB, 1956
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REEL 1 Background in Transylvania, Hungary, 1935-1944: family; education. Aspects of period as schoolchild in Hungary, 1944-1945: German Army withdrawal; incident when Soviet Army officer saved his mother from attempted rape by Soviet soldier. Recollections of period as schoolchild and medical student with Pecs University in Hungarian People's Republic, 1949-1956: aspirations of Hungarian people, 1945; arrest of his father by regime; occasion when he was beaten by members of State Protection Authorities (AVH) for breaking Joseph Stalin's picture at school, 1949; minor political acts carried out against regime; effects of death of mother; effects of Imre Nagy's period as Chairman of Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic, 1953-1954; class quota system for university entrance; his attitude towards Imre Nagy; medical course at Pecs University; receiving Marxist instruction.
REEL 2 Continues: his ideological attitudes at university, 1954-1956; effects of 20th Congress of Communist Party of the Soviet Union after 2/1956; character of student's parliaments held at Pecs University. Recollections of period as medical student at Pecs University during Hungarian Uprising in Hungarian People's Republic, 10/1956-11/1956: student demands, 22/10/1956; effect of his father's experiences in State Protection Authorities (AVH) prison; system of informing under regime pre-1956; effects of western radio broadcasts; editing student newspaper; arrest of Communists in Pecs, 23/10/1956; events in hiding, 10/1956-11/1956; division of political opinion in Hungarian People's Republic, 10/1956-11/1956.
REEL 3 Continues: question of actions of Janos Kadar, 11/1956; reaction to retribution hangings carried out by regime, 11/1956; type of people recruited by State Protection Authorities (AVH). Aspects of period as refugee in GB, 1956-1957: initial impressions of western society; question of complaints from British miners about how hard Hungarians worked; aid received from Roy Mason to help him resume his medical studies, 1957.