To Antal Szerb, who taught Hungarian and English, who, according to the school's 1938 yearbook, rented one of the apartments the year the sanatorium closed.

The works of English and Hungarian literary history, the Pendragon-legend  (1934), a  A Budapest guide for Martians (1935), and the Passenger and Moonlight (1937), the writer, who had long been at the center of Hungarian literary life and had been recognized with the Baumgarten Prize, divided his time between Szeged and Budapest, as he was a former Piarist high school teacher, For Alexander Sík Thanks to this, he also worked as a private tutor at the Hungarian Literature Department of the University of Szeged.

This status actually only meant that he had to give a lecture at least once every two years, and he just barely complied with this, writes Délmagyarország (January 27, 1970):

Antal Szerb, apparently in view of his obligation to leave Pest, only fulfilled this requirement by announcing his university classes. We first encounter his name and title in the first semester schedule of the 1937/38 academic year […] He announces his first lecture entitled »The World Literature of Hungarian Pre-Romanticism« for one hour a week, »at a time and place to be determined later«. After that, only in the second half of the 1938/39 academic year did he hold a class on Tuesdays from 11 am to 12 noon in Room V under the title »Literature: Classicism«. Finally, in the first semester of the 1940/41 academic year, he announced a seminar entitled »The Concept and Questions of World Literature« on Wednesdays from 11 am to 12 noon in Room III. In reality, he also came to Szeged every two weeks, as was his custom. His name was already missing from the second semester's schedule. Due to the infamous racial protection laws, he could not exercise his rights as a private teacher and could not give any more lectures.

This was the last, freely chosen residence of the tragically deceased writer, within whose walls he proudly moved - it turns out Béla Hegyi with Mrs. Antal Szerb From an interview he conducted, in which the widow said:

We lived on the top floor of the house, we had four rooms and three terraces. My husband's brother and his parents lived with us. He was childishly happy that we had our own main rental apartment. He was proud of it, he felt that this also contributed to the process of fulfilling, adult, creative life, and maturation. This is all ours, he kept saying, and more than once he counted how many rooms we could call our own, and in his good mood he added the basement, the attic, and even the built-in wardrobes so that we could have as much as possible as our own. He was happy.

In 1943 Kalman Piri Szerbék had to leave the house, which also housed the artist's studio, in July 1944, but the writer had already received his call-up for labor service a month earlier, on June 5. First he was sent to Fertőrákos, then to Balf, from where his friends tried to rescue him: two young military officers, Guido Görgey and Tassy Jenő He traveled to get her with a forged open order, but she decided to Gyorgy Sarkozi and Gabor Halasz He did not want to leave the camp without it. The bargaining that began at this point ultimately failed, and the German guards became suspicious. Antal Szerb remained in the camp, where he became seriously weakened by the beginning of 1945, and died on January 27 from injuries caused by the "Armenian Arrow Cross".

Her memory did not fade in the following decades, so in 1981, the 2nd District Council, which was preparing for the 80th anniversary of her birth, felt that it was time to name a street after her. In agreement with the Institute of Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Kuruc Street was finally chosen for this purpose, but the widow felt that it would be much better if a public space closer to the house could be renamed. The Monuments Inspectorate also supported the idea, as they believed that Labanc Street, which is a fifteen-minute walk away, could not remain without a counterpart.

After some thought, a solution was born that would benefit everyone, and finally Szajkó Street, located five hundred meters from the house, said goodbye to its old name. In January 2020, a stumbling block bearing its name was inaugurated in front of the gate:

The condition of the house has not really changed in recent decades, except for the construction of the thick fence in 1943, the installation of the terrace in 1978, and a few unfortunate window and door replacements, so the residents of decades ago would probably still feel comfortable today in the house that has seen both happy and terrible moments, which has recently appeared on the real estate market.

(Text: 24.hu)