She discontinued her secondary school studies and began to work as a typist and shorthand writer in Szolnok and for the Council of Kiskunhegyes district.

[1] Wittner participated in the demonstration on 23 October 1956 and joined the revolutionaries during the siege of the Magyar Rádió building.

Later, she became a member of the Vajdahunyad Street resistance group and with her companion they occupied the police station of the tenth district to find weapons on 30 October 1956.

After the end of communism, she has been actively involved in the work of different veteran organisations of the 1956 revolution.

She was appointed a member of the Committee on Human Rights, Minority, Civic and Religious Affairs on 14 May 2010.