Ilona Hajmassy — her original name — had grown up in Hungary, the daughter of a disabled typesetter. “My salvation,” she once said, “is that I have known misery and hunger. In my youth ...

Said Ilona Toth: “I felt I had to kill him ... She could not understand why Russia, a friend of Hungary, had sent in troops, and she insisted that the aims of the students who took up ...

Ilona Spiegel; her stepfather, Arpad Steiner, and her younger half-sister, Marian — were among 200,000 Hungarians who fled the country during the Hungarian Revolution. This was the second time ...

Ilona Mermelstein was a seven-year-old girl ... rather than being among the 570,000 Hungarian Jews murdered in the closing months of the Second World War. The first was a Hungarian gendarme ...

Ilona Spiegel; her stepfather, Arpad Steiner, and her younger half-sister, Marian — were among 200,000 Hungarians who fled the country during the Hungarian Revolution. This was the second time ...