Family background and education: great-grandniece of Szechenyi Istvan, famous 19th century Hungarian nobleman and patriot; education on family estate and in Budapest until 1945; experiences on country estate during Nazi occupation of Hungary and in Budapest during the Soviet Army siege of the city in 1945; experiences under Communist regime in Hungary; in Budapest after the siege; on country estate as a kulak; abandonment of estate; expulsion from university; job in Budapest; marriage and escape from Communist deportations in the early 1950s; father's escape to Slovakia and Austria; events of 1956 in Budapest; husband's arrest and imprisonment in 1957; help of Jewish friends; changes after 1956 in jobs, friends and life; change in political events before the fall of the Berlin Wall; changes in life after 1990 including compensation for losses under Communism; Hungary today (2003) politically and economically.
