István Szász, his family and some 300-500 other people walk a path different from what was formerly explained, in a miraculous and fortunate way, as he put it. According to local accounts and memories, the city of Baja was under the command of only three local SS officers.
The local SS command involved mayor Sándor Bernhart in developing a plan to establish a labour camp in the city employing the local professionals (doctors and craftsmen alike), and reports to the German higher command described a selection of Jewish professionals carrying out a variety of tasks for the German army. This gave them protection. Their workshop was in Telcs Ede Street, close to the synagogue. Jews working in this labour camp escaped the large deportation waves, and almost all of them returned from one of the transit camps located in a suburb of Vienna, Austria. This is how some 400 of all the Jews deported in various ways from Baja could survive and return to the city.