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Takács, Béla (1931)
He was born in Kiskunfélegyháza, his father a teacher, and after 1945, the deputy general manager of the Szeged School District. After his father's death in 1948, his mother became caretaker of a Piarist children's home.

He was barred from Budapest Technical University due to his background in the intelligentsia, and went to work at the Almásfűzítő Alumina Factory, as a night watchman, a cleaner, and then a vehicle electrician. In 1951, he joined the Radio and Film Technical Enterprise, and after that was reorganized, the Mining Industry Research Institute. Meanwhile he began a correspondence course in the weak-current department at the Technical University.

In 1956, he joined the National Guard as a member of the technical team, setting up a radio transmitter for the insurgents and maintaining it until mid-December. He fled to Yugoslavia in January 1957 and then emigrated to France in October. He worked there initially in a television repair shop, and from 1962 in an electronics factory. He first revisited Hungary in 1978.
 

 Béla Takács: "We provided a radio link with the outside world"

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