Tag #133660 - Interview #100685 (Jozsef Farkas)

Then in 1940 or 1941, right after the Hungarians occupied Kolozsvar [see Second Vienna Dictate] [6], the border was at the Felek [Editor’s note: between 1940 and 1944 Torda belonged to Romania, the border was approximately 20km from Torda]. They threw us out of our house because they established the CNR [Centrul National de Romanizare – the National Centre of Romanization] in our house. This organization addressed the problems of the refugees who came back from Hungary. We rented a house on the other side of the Aranyos River. I remember the owner had ten houses: five of them on one street and five on the backstreet, and he rented those ones, so we were able to rent one of them.We stayed there until the end of the war. Right after the takeover, when Antonescu [7] came to power, my father lost his job because he was a Jew [8]. He fell sick then, around 1943. Of course this worried him, and only aggravated his condition.