Word: ilona
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...care who he is as long as he is alone," she says, but she is rejected. The third incident has the Rev. Mr. Hartman (Donald Saddler) jaggedly convulsed before the vision of a woman dimly seen through a window. The fourth is a tautly controlled dance between mother (Ilona Murai) and son expressing in the pushing of a palm and the brush of a shoulder her mixed longing and desire to send him into the world...
...regime let the world glimpse its version of justice. In the course of secretly trying some 5,000 "criminals" (at least 113 of whom have been sentenced to death), Kadar decided to hold an open trial of eleven young Freedom Fighters. For his winning examples he chose Medical Student Ilona Toth, Editor Gyula Obersovszky, Playwright Jozsef Gali and eight others including an army lieutenant, charged them with having murdered an AVH man who had discovered that they were putting out a mimeographed revolutionary sheet called We Live! (TIME, April...
...trial was a public-relations flop for Kadar, aroused widespread sympathy for tearful, blonde Ilona Toth. An embarrassed Communist woman judge brusquely sentenced Ilona, the army lieutenant and one other to death. The comparatively mild prison sentences handed down to Obersovszky and Gali were later reversed; both, together with a third defendant, were on appeal condemned to death...
...Budapest to oust Premier Nagy's legitimate government, Editors Obersovszky and Gali urged continued resistance, changed the name of their clandestine journal to We Live! It was during this time that Hospital Patient Kollar fell under their suspicion: the underground group feared that he would betray them. Said Ilona Toth: "I felt I had to kill him." When her needles failed, one of her companions stood on Kollar's neck and she dispatched him with a knife...
...Obersovszky and Gali and six other members of the Domonkos hospital group, the sentence was prison. For Ilona Toth and two of her companions, including the one who helped hold AVH man Kollar, the sentence was death. As the word fell from the judge's lips, there was a gasp from the 400 spectators in the courtroom. The judge threatened to clear the court. Tommy-gun-toting guards edged forward. This was Kadar's Hungary...