Erzsébet Metzker Vass

Erzsébet Vass (née Metzker; 20 March 1915 – 8 August 1980) was a

Early life and education

Erzsébet Metzker was born 20 March 1915 in the Budafok neighborhood of Budapest in what at the time was Austria-Hungary to Teréz (née Berghammer) and János Metzker. Her mother was a factory worker and her father was a painter. At the age of fourteen, she became a factory worker and completed training at the Albertfalva Rubber Factory in 1930. She married Márton Andra in 1931 and had two children with him before they divorced in 1947. In 1933, Andra began working at the Lóden Post Factory, but was terminated for participating in a strike. She became a welder at the Budafoki Enamel Factory in 1934 and was promoted to do scribing in the enamel workshop in 1939. She left factory work in 1947, the same year she married stonemason, István Vass.^[1]: 374

Political career

Vass joined the Social Democratic Party of Hungary in 1939 and during the war was politically active. In 1945, she switched her alliance to the Hungarian Communist Party and began serving on the Budafok party committee. After attending party schooling in 1946, Vass joined the leadership of the Democratic Association of Hungarian Women, becoming the organization's secretary general in 1950. That year she also became a founder of the National Peace Council, an organization she would become vice president of from 1972 until 1980. She was appointed to the Executive Council of the Women's International Democratic Federation in 1951,^[1]: 374 and re-elected in 1953,^[2] serving until 1956.^[1]: 374

Vass became a member of the