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Sándorné Bali (birth name Mária Szorcsik, Budapest, 29 November 1927 - Budapest, 28 March 2010), a participant of the 1956 Revolution, one of the founders of the Historical Justice Committee and the Imre Nagy Prize.

She was born in 1927 in Budapest. She studied in Kalapos and then worked as a manicist until her retirement.

In the 1956 Revolution, her husband, Sándor Bali, on the side of the Head of the Central Workers' Council in Budapest, participated in the demonstrations, after having joined forces with the Soviet troops, one of the organizers of the Work Rescue.

The Founder of the Historical Justice Committee was the Honorary Member of the Hungarian Political Prisoners' Union (POFOSZ). In 2004, Ferenc Mádl, the President of the Republic of Hungary, gave her the Order of Imre Nagy. In 2005 she featured in Anna Mérei and Zsuzsa Katona in Harmincke's series documentary, in 2006, she featured in a documentary titled "Our Teams in Fighting", written by her granddaughter, Sándor Bali made the "50. memorial year."

She died in Budapest on 28 March 2010 after a long-lasting illness on the anniversary of the day that her husband was released in 1963.

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