Tag #136289 - Interview #78490 (Katalin Kallos Havas)

I met my husband, Miklos Kallos, in Kolozsvar at the Dezsisz [Democratic Jewish Youth Union], right after I came home. This was the meeting place for the Jewish youth. He was originally from an observant Orthodox family from Nagyvarad. His family wasn’t large; he didn’t even have brothers or sisters. Before Auschwitz he was religious, too. His father was employed at the synagogue. My husband used to help his father out in his work. Even though he was Orthodox, he attended elementary school in the school of the Neolog community of Nagyvarad. He graduated from the Jewish high-school. He even attended talmud torah. They studied in Hungarian, so he spoke Romanian with great difficulty, and he had a strange accent. At home they spoke Yiddish, but he grew up with Hungarian culture.