Fonds DescriptionMária Jassó was born in Budapest. Her father was an architect (originally from Tokajhegyalja), her mother was a homemaker and, later in her life, a school secretary.
Mária Jassó attended school in Budapest and did her baccalaureate at Szerb Antal High School (Szerb Antal Gimnázum) in Cinkota, a district of Budapest, in 1972. In that same year, in November, she started to work as a Research Assistant at the newly established Lukács Archive and Library (Lukács Archívum és Könyvtár), at the Institute of Philosophy (Filozófiai Intézet) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia).
On March 15, 1973, following her participation at a spontaneous street protest, she was arrested and, a few days later, sent to Pálhalma prison, where she served a sentence of 30 days. After her release, she was allowed to return to work at the Lukács Archive and Library, where she worked until early 1974.
Mária Jassó would later earn degrees as a special educational needs (SEN) teacher and social worker from the Bárczi Gusztáv College for Special Needs Education (Bárczi Gusztáv Gyógypedagógiai Tanárképző Főiskola), and work at several pedagogical, educational and medical institutions across Budapest, including the National Institute for Psychiatry and Neurology (Országos Pszichiátriai és Neurológiai Intézet - OPNI, also known as "Lipótmező").
She had six children and currently lives in Budapest.
The documents were brought to Blinken OSA by Mária Jassó.
The fonds documents the arrest, detention, and disciplinary punishment of Mária Jassó following her participation at an unauthorized demonstration of protest in Budapest on March 15, 1973. Her exchange of letters with her parents from prison, records of her – unsuccessful – request for compensation (1994-1996) for the time she spent in detention, as well as her own archival research (1997-2018) on the events of March 15, 1973, complete this small archival fonds.
Mária Jassó's papers constitute a fine example of a case of political persecution in Socialist Hungary that has not been acknowledged and compensated for after the regime change in 1989.
Fonds DescriptionMária Jassó was born in Budapest. Her father was an architect (originally from Tokajhegyalja), her mother was a homemaker and, later in her life, a school secretary.
Mária Jassó attended school in Budapest and did her baccalaureate at Szerb Antal High School (Szerb Antal Gimnázum) in Cinkota, a district of Budapest, in 1972. In that same year, in November, she started to work as a Research Assistant at the newly established Lukács Archive and Library (Lukács Archívum és Könyvtár), at the Institute of Philosophy (Filozófiai Intézet) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia).
On March 15, 1973, following her participation at a spontaneous street protest, she was arrested and, a few days later, sent to Pálhalma prison, where she served a sentence of 30 days. After her release, she was allowed to return to work at the Lukács Archive and Library, where she worked until early 1974.
Mária Jassó would later earn degrees as a special educational needs (SEN) teacher and social worker from the Bárczi Gusztáv College for Special Needs Education (Bárczi Gusztáv Gyógypedagógiai Tanárképző Főiskola), and work at several pedagogical, educational and medical institutions across Budapest, including the National Institute for Psychiatry and Neurology (Országos Pszichiátriai és Neurológiai Intézet - OPNI, also known as "Lipótmező").
She had six children and currently lives in Budapest.
The documents were brought to Blinken OSA by Mária Jassó.
The fonds documents the arrest, detention, and disciplinary punishment of Mária Jassó following her participation at an unauthorized demonstration of protest in Budapest on March 15, 1973. Her exchange of letters with her parents from prison, records of her – unsuccessful – request for compensation (1994-1996) for the time she spent in detention, as well as her own archival research (1997-2018) on the events of March 15, 1973, complete this small archival fonds.
Mária Jassó's papers constitute a fine example of a case of political persecution in Socialist Hungary that has not been acknowledged and compensated for after the regime change in 1989.