Merk Zsuzsa - Bálint Attila: Baja is town for 300 years - A Bajai Türr István Múzeum kiadványai 27. (Baja, 1999)

The County Hall built in 7 923.

Yugoslavia. The county seat of Csonka Bács-Bodrog, the resulting "truncated county", was Baja. Measured by the standard of the period between the two world wars, the city's development was outstanding. However, World War II disrupted the city's development, and in 1941, when the temporarily Yugoslav-controlled areas of the county returned to Hungary, Baja lost its function as the county seat.

After the German troops occupied Hungary on March 19, 1944, Jews were confined to ghettos and, later, deported. Baja's Mayor Dr. Sándor Bernhart moved every stone to mitigate the suffering of the city's Jewish community. Antisemitism did not have much of a base in Baja.

"Local Jews were concentrated into the streets around the Synagogue and other public Jewish buildings. The Mayor, Dr. Sándor Bernhart was a very honest man; he refused to establish an official ghetto or to limit the otherwise relatively free movement the Jewish community they enjoyed for shopping and other purposes." (Randolph L. Braham: Magyar Holocaust; "The Hungarian Holocaust"). This is how the Jewish community of Baja remembers Sándor Bernhart "We, surviving Baja Jews, although cannot ever express our gratitude to him, will never forget what he did. We will always remember his exceptional human greatness:

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