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Bácsi, József (1926) |
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Born in Mezőszilas and brought up in Csepel, József Bácsi was the child of factory workers. After elementary school, he began training as an industrial lathe operator at Csepel Iron and Metalworks. He received an emergency call-up letter on December 6, 1944, but ignored it, and early in 1945, volunteered for the army of the provisional government installed by the Allied Control Commission. After several weeks' training, he was sent with his unit to the Wiener Neustadt area of Austria to provide lines of communications. Demobbed in August, he returned to the steel alloy works as a metal turner. He became a member of the Communist Party, which intervened on his behalf in March 1946 when he was arrested as a deserter and sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. However, he became disillusioned with the party during the Rajk trial and returned his card. He completed training as a trade teacher in 1951 and taught in a technical school until 1955. During '56, he became a member of the Csepel Iron and Metalworks Provisional Workers Council, then vice-chairman when a permanent council was formed on November 29. He was arrested on January 12, 1957 and sentenced on February 7, 1958 to ten years' imprisonment. He took part in the April 1960 hunger strike at Vác Prison and was released in March 1963. He then found a job as a turner at the Csepel Motorcycle Factory, moving later to the service plant of Csepel Iron and Metalworks, and in 1981-5 a storeman to the Volán Enterprise. |
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Bácsi, József: 'I never got involved in politics. I don't understand it, I'm not a politician'
My father