Survivor Ágnes Heller remembers the shootings and how this experience impacted her life. Watch her testimony clip and read her biography.
Ágnes Heller was born on 1929 in Budapest. The discriminatory laws against Jews seriously impacted the family, they were living under harder and harder circumstances. Several of her family members and friends were deported and murdered. She survived the Holocaust in Budapest. After the war she studied philosophy in Budapest and became a well-known philosopher.
In 1948 she joined the communist party but then was persecuted for political reasons and had to leave the country in 1977, when she started teaching at universities abroad. She returned to Hungary after the fall of communism (1990) and was chosen among the members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She died in 2019. The testimony was taken in 1999 in Budapest.