Listen to the testimony by István Szász, talking about the coexistence of a multinational and multi-faith community.
István Szász was born in Baja in 1938 in a Neolog Jewish family. His father was a well-respected doctor. He is 6 years old when deported. The family escapes from the extermination camp and return from Austria in 1945. He starts his secondary school in the King Béla III. School of Baja driven by the Cistercian order, then starts to study music in Pécs, which he doesn’t finish. He takes an active part in the 1956 revolution, and is interrogated by the police several times. As a journalist he starts working for the daily Magyar Nemzet, and becomes a founding member of the Alliance of Free Democrats. He remains a renowned journalist, an esteemed worker of the daily Népszava. He died in February 2019.