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Szlávics was born on 24 February 1927, at Henyehegy (today:
Kislengyel) in Zala county. His father, Ernő Szlávics, was
a fitter, his mother, Mária Burucs gave life to eleven children.
Laci was three when the family moved to Győrszentiván as the
father got a job in Győr. Győrszentiván was mainly populated
by industrial labourers, which determined the life and atmosphere
of the village. The one-room abode house, their home, was
the last one in a street on the outskirt of the village. Beyond
the fence, kilometres of fir and beech woods stretched, the
Danube was an hour's walk away; it often flushed over its
banks or swelled the inland waters to the corner of their
house. Laci was hardly four when he whittled wood, and later,
as a schoolboy, he collected clay on the bank and made statuettes
at home. Supported by his father, he learnt the violin and
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