János Rózsás a writer, dubbed the "Hungarian Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was aRussian and Soviet novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his often-suppressed writings, he helped to raise global awareness of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of...

". He was held captive in the Soviet Union between 1944 and 1953, and during these years he became friends with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the famous Noble-prize winner Soviet writer. He wrote several books and articles on the issue of the Gulag

Gulag

The Gulag was the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems. While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of...

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Zoltan Szalkai

Zoltan Szalkai

Zoltán Szalkai, a Hungarian film director, was born in 1961. He studied agriculture and geology before turning to a career in directing documentary films....

, the Hungarian filmmaker, made a film of János Rózsás and György Zoltán Bien, who were eyewitnesses of the gulag.

Published works

• Keserű ifjúság (Bitter Youth) (München, 1986)
• Éltető reménység (Vital Trust) (München, 1987)
• Duszja nővér (Nurse Duszja) (Nagykanizsa, 1995)
• GULAG-lexikon (GULAG-encyclopedia) (Budapest, 2000)
• Leventesors (Fate of a young Hungarian military trainee during the Second World War) (Nagykanizsa, 2005)