There were some people who, in spite of the orders, hadn't left for the farms, becausethey didn't want to leave their houses unattended. Uncle Pista Kedves stayed at home as well.When the partisans found him, they beat him up with rifle butts so brutally that he passed outseveral times. Then they locked him up in the cellar of Sandor Horvath, but that cellar was fullof people. Every morning they were driven out but each time he was pushed back."You are stary (old), you can go back!"The young people were executed in the yard (all he heard were the shots), later they werefound buried in the dunghill.December 8. There was a mass again in the church. Chaplain Lajos Vajda, who hadbeen taken to Zombor on November 3, by the partisans, returned. He was given food andaccommodation at the Gyorfis'. The women were cleaning the church for days. They carriedout several loads of garbage and dung, because the soldiers had put themselves up in thechurch and kept their horses there too. They had even made a fire in the middle of the church:the place where it was can still be seen.December 10. Life slowly starts again, people gather and bring news. There is novillage in Bacska where the partisans didn't take a deadly toll. They executed twenty-eight ofthe Catholic priests, among them the abbot of Becse, who was beaten to death, and BalintDupp, the parish priest of Csurog, who was executed in Becse. In Topolya they threw thehundreds of corpses into the lake behind the council house. In Temerin, Peterreve and Bajmok,they made the victims dig their own graves. In Novi Sad they shot thousands of Hungariansdead on the soccer field. In the villages near the Tisza river, they shot them into the water. TheSwabians of Bacska were taken to the camp of Gakovo, which was surrounded with barbedwire. They slept there in the open and were kept there until they starved to death. I also heardabout men who were buried alive, impaled or quartered. In Zombor they buried their victimsinto the ground up to their necks and then crushed them with tanks."
37The recollections of T.K.:"The executions in the villages of Bacska were directed by a woman called Julka. Shemade a bloodbath wherever the 12th Brigade went. <strong>This</strong> Julka said that each executed Serbianmust be avenged with the death of ten Hungarians. She kept mentioning seven thousandexecuted Serbs, so she wanted the death of seventy thousand Hungarians. She died at the Battleof Batina when they crossed the Danube. A shell tore her hand off and then she was taken toBezdan for first aid. Ilus, whose husband was also executed at Isterbac, worked at the first-aidstation and saw her die. On the hill of Batina, it is her statue on the top of the thirty-yard highgranite monument. It can be seen on the side of the column how they crossed the Danube."The recollections of F.R.:"I was looking for Laci, my brother-in-law, and I was going around everywhere in thevillage. We picked up seven dead bodies in the big mill, seven at Miklos Stein' on the mainstreet, five in the Knipp-school, five at Miska Flesz'. There were also seven corpses at PistaSzecsenyi's house on Puszta Street. Then another two, one, three were dug in yards anddunghill or thrown into wells.There was a long ditch along New Street. The partisans told the people: if you run away,you can escape. Poor fellows, they were wired to one another. Instead of running together, theytugged one another right and left till they all were shot into the ditch from behind, there wereseven of them.At Uncle Jozsi Tallosi's, the well was dug on the corridor. They drew the water fromthere and poured it right into the kitchen. In April he wanted to put the pub in order and open it.He tried to draw some water but couldn't. They opened the well, it was covered with planks.They found it full of dead bodies almost up to the top. When he reported it, he was told:"They can't be taken out, fill it up."Then there was one, I can't understand that, who was dug into the ground, and his headwas crushed totally flat. I saw another who was slashed open from neck downwards and hisheart was cut out. We found him like that when we dug him out.December 16. I met the forester of Topolya in Zombor. In Topolya they executed peopleon the hillside at dusk. They made them dig their graves, undress to underpants, and then shotthem38into the pit. Early next morning, when he found the place, the earth that had been thrown onthem was still moving. They spoke of about 1,600 executed people in Zombor.
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Recommended readingeRudolf Kiszlion
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