„Foglalkozása fényképész” – Erdélyi Lajos
Lajos Erdélyi. “Profession: Photographer

Summary/Abstract: Born in the Transylvanian city of Târgu Mureș, the photographer and journalist Lajos Erdélyi was deported to the Auschwitz “death camp” in in the summer of 1944 when he was only 16, and was released in 1945 from the Dörnhau concentration camp, Lower Silesia. As he recalls it, his passion for photography has turned into a profession by pure accident when he was a child. The young Erdélyi had the opportunity to take a few snapshots of Miklós Kállay, then Prime Minister of Hungary in the Horthy regime, during his offi cial visit to the child’s hometown; later, he started working on portraits of several Transylvanian personalities and doing pioneering work by bringing to light some valuable photographic documents from diff erent archives. On the occasion of his 90th birthday, we have published, in the October 2018 issue of “Korunk” journal, an overview of his career entitled The close-up photography of Lajos Erdélyi. In the present text, Lajos Erdélyi recalls his experience of the Holocaust, his return and beginning of a new life in the context of his double minority status: as Hungarian in Romania and as a Jew among Hungarians

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