Somorjai József szerk.: Komárom – Esztergom Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 4. (Tata, 1991)

Kakuk Tamás: Tábori történetek. Tatabányaiak a szovjet munkatáborokban

As an adult I found in the dusty library of the trade union a book entitled "One Day of Ivan Genisovits". On the inner side of the cover there was a seal: Spring Factory of the Hungarian Steel Works. Years passed when on a gloomy November day someone gave me an other book by Soljenitzin, which was entitled the "Gulag Archipelago" It astonished me. In the spring of 19901 visited some people in Tatabánya. All of them once lived in labour-camps. Not all of them were willing to talk to me. And even those who talked wanted to deminish their sufferings. Although decades passed they did not break the silence-order they were given an their release, not even in family circle. An they did not do it of fear but of modesty. The experienced torture and the political regime that seemed very stabile made them very careful. And some of the interviewed people were under police observation up to the 1980s. Even those who were ready to talk preferred to relate the story in a chronological order. I understood it difficultly but I personally did not have to stand on foot for 72 h ours ina 1 per 1 meters cell, they did not fill into my mouth a floorcloth full of human excrement and I did not dig for gold in Kolima when the temperature was 40° centigrade under zero. 148