Tóty Ilonka Memorial House Mural

Tóth Ilona was a 24-year-old medical student at Budapest’s Semmelweis University who volunteered to treat wounded revolutionaries during the 1956 Hungarian uprising. She was arrested on November 20, 1956, along with four others, charged with conspiracy and the murder of ÁVH officer Sándor Szalay, and executed by hanging on June 28, 1957, after a show trial widely seen as politically motivated. Her case remains controversial due to coerced confessions, lack of direct evidence linking her to violence, and posthumous rehabilitation efforts, symbolizing the communist regime’s post-revolution reprisals.