Career
Born in Hungary, Hajós married Béla Balázs in 1913. She lived in Berlin, Germany from 1923 to 1933. In 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, Bone was involved with the establishment of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) in Barcelona, Spain.
In 1949, Bone was acting as a free-lance correspondent in Budapest, affiliated with the London Daily Worker.
She was accused of spying when leaving Hungary, arrested by the State Protection Authority (AVH) and detained in solitary confinement without trial or a prisoner identification number for seven years. During her detention, Bone managed to avoid the mental instability or insanity that typically accompanies isolation.
She developed a series of mental exercises, including reviews of geometry, language and vocabulary. Bone was released during the last days of the revolutionary Nagy Government in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
She replied, "Alas, no!" And went on to describe how it failed the very people it claimed to serve: the workers.
Bone wrote a book about her experiences in 1957 called Seven Years Solitary.