Erzsébet Nagy

Imre Nagy did not object to his daughter's romance and eventual marriage to a Protestant minister, attending their religious wedding ceremony in 1946 without Politburo permission.

[1] Erzsébet Nagy, along with her parents, her husband, Ferenc Jánosi, and her children were all deported to Romania from Hungary following the failure of the Revolution.

[1] Nagy, a writer and translator by profession, was forced to work from her home for 15 years, as she was placed under a virtual house arrest by the Hungarian Communist government.

[1] During the 1980s, Nagy became one of the co-founders of the Historical Justice Committee, which sought to exonerate those who were vilified and implicated in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution by the Communists authorities.

[1] Nagy's efforts were considered controversial by anti-Communists, but were also interpreted as an attempt to heal deep political divisions that existed from the Communist era.