Endre Marton

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Endre Márton (born October 29, 1910 in Budapest , † November 1, 2005 in New York , United States ) was a Hungarian- American journalist . He later called himself Endrew Marton .

biography

The son of a stock trader graduated from Budapest University in 1932 and received a doctorate in economics in 1936. He spent the Second World War under Hungarian command in a forced labor camp near the Russian front. On his return to Budapest he was briefly a correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph .

In 1943 he married Ilona. From 1948 he was a permanent Budapest correspondent for the Associated Press and United Press .

Since then he has been subjected to conspiratorial observation by the Hungarian counterintelligence agency ÁVO on suspicion of espionage for the USA, with people from his circle of friends and acquaintances being recruited as informers. He and his wife Ilona were arrested in February and June 1955, respectively, and secretly sentenced to six and three years in prison, respectively. According to the Hungarian historian Attila Szakolczai , the arrest took place in connection with a show trial planned by Mátyás Rákosi against the 1955 deposed Prime Minister Imre Nagy , in which the Martons should be presented as his American espionage connection. They were released in August 1956 during the thaw .

He was one of the most important reporters on the Hungarian uprising in 1956.

In December 1956 he conducted one of the few interviews with Noel Field and his family, the essential content of which he misrepresented in 1957 before the Senate Homeland Security Investigative Committee .

In January 1957, he and his family fled to the US embassy in Budapest (where Cardinal József Mindszenty had also sought protection) and were smuggled out to Vienna , from where they went to New York. In 1957, he and his wife received the George Polk Award for reporting on the revolt. From the late 1950s he specialized in diplomatic correspondence from Washington for about 20 years.

In retirement he was diplomatic advisor to the deposed Shah of Persia and an associate professor at Georgetown University for several years . After the death of his wife, he moved to New York. His children were Julia Marton-Lefèvre , Kati Marton (New York) and Andrew Marton (Fort Worth; Star-Telegram senior arts writer).

Ilona

His wife Ilona Marton (born March 14, 1912 in Miskolc as Neuman or Neumann; † September 4, 2004 in Silver Spring , Maryland ) was the daughter of a horse breeder whose gambling losses had brought the family into economic difficulties. Ilona had Magyarized her surname to Nyilas in 1931 . She studied history and received a PhD in philosophy from the University of Debrecen. Before 1943, she was briefly married to the older Sandor Brody. She was working as a history teacher in Budapest when her parents were killed when the Nazis invaded Hungary in spring 1944. Her mother was still able to smuggle a postcard from the train to Auschwitz. From the late 1940s she worked for the United Press news agency, which exposed the show trial of Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty.

Publications

  • The Forbidden Sky , Boston, Little, Brown 1971 (Memoirs on the Hungarian Revolution)

literature

  • Kati Marton, Enemies of the People. My Family's Journey to America , Simon & Schuster, New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-4165-8612-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101850.html
  2. ^ The Noel Field case: Asylum in Hungary 1954-1957 ; P. 71
  3. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1404-2004Sep6.html
personal data
SURNAME Marton, Endre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marton, Endrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 2005
Place of death new York