József Ábrahám

From the Hungarian Wikipedia page [1]

József Ábrahám (Budapest, December 20, 1924 - Budapest, June 11, 1958) [3] Hungarian toolmaker , mechanical engineer, martyr of the 1956 revolution.

## Life

He was born the son of József Ábrahám (1868–1944), a female tailor, and Mária Kuszovszky (1889–1927). He was two years old when his mother died and his father was murdered in 1944. He completed six classes in elementary school, then began working, becoming a runaway boy. In 1941, he began studying to be a tool maker. He worked as a toolmaker from 1944, but was taken to labor in November. He was taken prisoner of war on the Eastern Front, and finally returned to Hungary in early 1945. In an evening course, he graduated from a mechanical engineering technical school and began working at the Automotive Electrical Equipment Factory. He became a member of the Hungarian Communist Party, but was expelled in 1948. In 1953 he joined the Hungarian Workers' Party, but was expelled again two years later, he testified because he could not pay the membership fee because of his poverty.

He married in 1950 but divorced his wife in 1953. He married for the second time in 1955. He had a son from his first marriage.

He took part in the formation of the Hungarian Revolutionary Youth Party during the 1956 revolution, but did not take part in armed struggles. In December, he was approached by a man he had met during the revolution and asked to list trusted young people who could be expected to continue the struggle. Abraham refused the request. Even before the end of the year, he went to Vienna on the recommendation of a colleague who had previously helped him out with more serious sums. Here he met an alleged American intelligence officer, "Bobby", who asked to organize a spy network in Hungary. He gave him various means to accomplish his task, and he promised money for his work. After returning home, in February 1957, András Nagy joined the organization iron lathe, his former colleague, who then obtained locator tubes from the Soviet military airport in Debrecen and gave Abraham a textbook on locators. Meanwhile, Abraham also recruited several acquaintances and colleagues. In August, they took photos of the Székesfehérvár and Tököl airports , and with the help of a military partner in Kiskunfélegyháza, they took a drawing of the airport there. Abraham paid those involved in the organization with engine parts he got from his job. He repeatedly tried to get out of the task because he was nervously struggling with the excitement. He was detained on October 23, 1957, on the anniversary of the outbreak of the revolution.

József Ábrahám was convicted on 27 March 1958 by the special council of the Budapest Military Court, of actively participating in the organization against the people's democratic state order, in infidelity using a public office position, in two-way illegal border crossings and repeatedly found to be guilty of death and theft. Although the prosecutor also objected to the charge of illegally crossing the border, as an amnesty was issued for those who crossed the border without permission while Abraham was in Austria, the court also found Abraham guilty on this charge. In the second instance, János Szimler of the Military Chamber of the Supreme Court. On June 9, 1958, the Special Council, headed by Lt. Col., upheld the judgment at first instance. The court of first instance only sentenced to prison III. The accused also sentenced Nagy to death. József Ábrahám and András Nagy were executed on June 11, 1958 in the courtyard of the Budapest National Prison. The tomb of Abraham is located in the Rákoskeresztúr public cemetery.