Gabor and Rozalia Lazar

This is me, Gabor Lazar with my wife, Rozalia Lazar (nee Orban). The photo was taken in Satu Mare

After I passed the final examination in 1947, at the Reformed Gymnasium in Szatmar, and I sat the entrance examination at the Medical and Pharmaceutical Institute in Marosvasarhely, and I graduated in 1953, with honors.

Between 1953-56 I worked at the Blood Collection and Storage Centre in Marosvasarhely, as a consulting doctor.

In the meantime I was sent to Bucharest in 1954, to the hematological centre; it's called the Institutul de Hematologie si Transfuzie [Hematological and Blood Transfusion Institute].

I got my qualification in blood transfusion; I was the first physician in Marosvasarhely who had a certificate in this. Nobody wanted to do this course.

What happened then? Well, they issued a decree saying that everybody had to perform a six-month long service in a village.

This applied to me as well, so they placed me here, in this region. First I was in Kommando in August and September 1956, from there they sent me to Kovaszna to the hospital on the medical ward.

When the six months had passed, I started to think what to do, I had nobody in Marosvasarhely, only friends; my mother had died too.

I thought I would try to leave Marosvasarhely entirely; I lived in lodgings there, I didn’t have a chance of owning an apartment.

I didn’t go back to Marosvasarhely after six months, I settled in Kovaszna. I met my wife here; she worked at the hospital as a clerk.

In 1958 we got married, and since then I have lived in Kovaszna.

My wife, Rozalia Orban, was born on 28th June 1933, here in Kovaszna; she is reformed.

My wife finished high school in Kovaszna, and she was a clerk at the hospital and at the construction co-operative.