In addition to that, the spiritual food also had to reach the brothers interned in labor camps. Perhaps the best known of the labor camps was Tólápa, a coal mine in the north of the country. At its peak, 265 brothers were put to work there by the authorities. In the mines the brothers were working with the regular miners, many of whom were well disposed toward Jehovah’s Witnesses. They smuggled literature in and reports out for them.

In the summer of 1955, about a hundred brothers were released from the camp in Tólápa. After they had enjoyed their restored family life for just six weeks, they were ordered to go to the village of Szentendre, near Budapest.