Son Gabriel is a BBC World Service journalist, daughter Eszter Nordin a
film and TV director.
Often harrassed by the authorities because of his refusal to join the
Communist party, he took the opportunity of the "thaw" to defect to the
UK in 1969. He returned to Hungary in 1995
Best known as a theatre director. After surviving the second World War
and the Shoah, he became principal director of the Madach repertory
theatre, Budapest.