Tag #136229 - Interview #78490 (Katalin Kallos Havas)

There were cells in Kolozsvar, but I didn’t know who their leaders were. [Editor’s note: the communists were organized in small groups called cells.] We only knew one person, who gave us instructions. Everybody had such a contact person, and we called them ‘the contacts.’ My brother’s contact was a Christian boy called Zoltan Kiraly, who was taken to forced labor in 1941, to the Russian front. My contact was a boy from Des who lived in Kolozsvar. I knew him as ‘the Hollender boy’. I didn’t know anything else about him. He was caught by the police in 1942 or 1943. He was imprisoned in Szamosfalva – the prison for communists –, then he was beaten to death. Laci Farkas was also imprisoned there. He was of Jewish origin. I met him at the end of the 1930s. He was originally from Kolozsvar but operated in Des. The illegal communist organization from Kolozsvar sent him there to help in organizing the communists.