In the footsteps of Baja's Jewry

Testimony

Listen to the next clip, where István Szász and Lipót Sziklai explain the situation of the Jews in Baja between the two world wars.

**Lipót Sziklai **was born in 1916 to a family in Baja, where he lived his life too. After the Jewish primary school he went to King Béla III. secondary school of the Cistercian order. After a top grade final exam he was unable to continue his studies for lack of funds, so he became a glazier and started to work in Budapest. He was not religious, but he was deported to Dachau at the age of 28 in line with the anti-Jewish laws, then further to other camps, and finally he returned from Austria in 1945. He declared to be an atheist after the war. He married several times but had no children.


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