József Bácsi

József Bácsi (Mezőszilas, born 1926)), participated in the 1956 Revolution, for which he was later sentenced to jail.

Life
He came from a poor family, who moved to Csepel in the year of his birth. After completing the eight classes for the Weiss Manfred Factory student. In 1944 he was called up to be a soldier, but he did not join up, and fled from the Arrow Cross. In January 1945, he applied to the newly formed democratic army in Szombathely. In August, he was decommissioned in Esztergom, and started to work at Csepel as an iron worker. In the same year he joined the MKP. In 1949, when collecting signatures among the workers against László Rajk and his counterparts, he refused to sign and withdrew from the party. In 1951 he completed his teacher training course, and until 1955 he taught in a vocational school.

After the outbreak of the revolution, he became the head of the workers' council of the steel mill. On November 29, he was elected vice president of the Central Workers' Council of Manfréd Weiss Steel and Metal Works. He was arrested on January 12, 1957 and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment as second lieutenant in the Csepel workers' council. In 1960 he participated in the hunger strike of political prisoners in Vác prison. In 1963 he was released during the general amnesty, but he was under police supervision for half a year. He then worked as an auxiliary worker, turning machine, warehouse worker until 1981 when he was forced to stop working due to his illness. He was rehabilitated in 1990.

In November 2011, Pál Schmitt, President of the Republic of Hungary, awarded him the Imre Nagy Order.