János Rózsás

János Rózsás (b. Budapest, 6 August 1926) a writer, dubbed the "Hungarian Solzhenitsyn". 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.
Zoltan Szalkai, 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-enyclopedia) (Budapest, 2000)
*"Leventesors" (Fate of a young Hungarian military trainee during the Second World War) (Nagykanizsa, 2005)