János Rózsás

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János Rózsás
János Rózsás

János Rózsás (b. Budapest, 6 August 1926) a writer, dubbed the "Hungarian Solzhenitsyn". He was held captive in the Soviet Union between 1944 and 1953, and during these years he became friends with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the famous Noble-prize winner Soviet writer. He wrote several books and articles on the issue of the Gulag. Zoltan Szalkai, the Hungarian filmmaker, made a film of János Rózsás and György Zoltán Bien, who were eyewitnesses of the gulag.

[edit] Published works

  • Keserű ifjúság (Bitter Youth) (München, 1986)
  • Éltető reménység (Vital Trust) (München, 1987)
  • Duszja nővér (Nurse Duszja) (Nagykanizsa, 1995)
  • GULAG-lexikon (GULAG-enyclopedia) (Budapest, 2000)
  • Leventesors (Fate of a young Hungarian military trainee during the Second World War) (Nagykanizsa, 2005)
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