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Article: Faces of faith: Laszlo S. Pandy-Szekeres.
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- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
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Laszlo S. Pandy-Szekeres was born in Hungary in 1919. Educated at the Reformed College of Debrecen and the University of Kolozsvar, he obtained two doctorates. While at university, he cochaired the Hungarian National University Student Federation and worked with Reformed Hungarian-speaking Christians around Kolozsvar, Romania. From 1942 to 1947, he practised law in Kolozsvar, Budapest and Debrecen, served two years in the army and was a prisoner of war in Russia. As director of the Peasant Association of Eastern Hungary, he organized and managed co-operatives. He spent seven months in solitary confinement as a political prisoner during 1947. From 1948 to 1950, he was a ...