Tag #136315 - Interview #78490 (Katalin Kallos Havas)

I became pregnant in 1949, and in 1950 I gave birth to a boy, Peter. In this period the Varga Katalin factory was given a house at the back of its courtyard that gave onto Furdo Street. The management decided to set up a day nursery there and entrusted me with organizing it. I didn’t know, of course, how that was done, but I bent to the task. Organizing became my actual profession. This was my job in my first month of pregnancy. I managed to get a doctor, like no other day nursery had, and a cook who loved children. I don’t know how I managed to gather such a collective that made the day nursery of the knitwear factory the best day nursery in Kolozsvar. My older son, Peter, was raised in this day nursery. Five weeks after I gave birth, I returned to work in the factory. Organizing the day nursery was only to make it easier for me.