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Article: Ilona Mathe Boissenin; Spoke for Those Behind Iron Curtain
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 9, 2004
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Ilona Mathe Boissenin, 66, a homemaker who, before the collapse of
the Soviet Union, was an advocate for Hungarians living behind the
Iron Curtain, died Oct. 31 of lung cancer at Capital Hospice
Inpatient Center in Arlington. She was a longtime Annandale resident.
Mrs. Boissenin was born in Riska, Transylvania, in Romania. In
fall 1944, in the company of her parents, three sisters and a
brother, she fled her home, then in Hungary, in advance of invading
Soviet and Romanian armies. Two brothers and a sister were left
behind. She spent five years in several British-operated displaced
persons' camps in Austria.
In 1950, she and her parents immigrated to the United States under
the sponsorship ...