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His oldest brother, Jozsef, whom we all called Jasszi, lived in Des with his family for a while. He was an illegal communist already, as early as 1933, and was imprisoned for quite a while. During those periods his wife, Edit, and their children lived at our house in Des because they had no other source of income. His wife was originally from a landlord’s family from Kapjon. Kapjon is a couple of kilometers away from Kolozsvar. His daughter’s name was Zsuzsi. Since my father was a lawyer, he helped out Jasszi many times, getting him out of prison. At the end of the 1930s they moved to Galac, and then, after World War II, to Bucharest. As a member of the Communist Party since 1933, he was expelled from the Party in 1945. Only after he died, in the 1960s, was his name cleared, thanks to his daughter’s intercession.
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Romania
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Katalin Kallos Havas