“The fate‘s helped me gain to two homelands.”
Stáhnout obrázek
László Gyarmati was born in a middle-class family in 1934. His grandfather was a lawyer, and his father a forestry engineer. The family, parents and five children, lived in various cities, wherever his father got a job. They moved to Budapest in 1940. Fortunately, the relocation did not affected the family. They survived World War II and the siege of the capital. Gyarmati was a scout until scouting‘s dissolution in 1948. He was a pentathlon athlete and in 1953, he sat for the final examination in secondary school with good results. Nevertheless, he wasn‘t admitted to the faculty of Medicine because of his origin. He worked as a labourer and later, as a laboratory assistant. After his second application was rejected, he was enlisted in the army in 1954. He was a telegraph operator. During the revolution of 1956, he did his military service at the barrack in Budakeszi. On the 4th of November when the Red Army attacked the barracks, all the soldiers went home, so did he. After the revolution on the 19th of November, he escaped to Austria through the green border with his relatives. He settled in Switzerland, where he completed the medical school. Since, he worked as a dentist. He actively participated in Swiss Scouting. His wife is German and they raised two sons.
