[4] She was excluded from competition for the next four years, and survived the Holocaust partly because she was a famous swimmer.

[2] Towards the end of World War II, she lived with 41 people in a crowded two-room “safe-house” in Budapest run by the Swiss, and to keep in shape, every day she ran up and down five flights of stairs 100 times.

[4][2][7] Their daughter Andrea Gyarmati, born in 1954, was a backstroke and butterfly swimmer who won two medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

[3] After retiring from competitions Székely worked as a pharmacist and swimming coach, training her daughter among others.

[3] She was named as one of Hungary's Athletes of the Nation in 2004, and received the Prima Primissima award in 2011.