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Hungarian soldier and an arrow-cross man (i.e. member of the Hungarian Nazi party), though hedid not hold any office. A woman, between 40-45 years old, crawled out of the common grave,but she bled to death about 100 metres from there. By the next day, hungry stray dogs had tornher body to pieces. Those who had Serbian enemies were all slaughtered, including theirfamilies. All those whose Chetnik sons had been convicted by the Hungarian authorities hadtheir revenge."Though all Hungarian villagers in Szenttamas suffered a great deal during the reign ofterror, all of them cannot be included among the victims, as some emigrated from there, or diednatural deaths. So our sad summary does not have an exact final result.According to even a conservative estimate, the number of the executed is above onethousand. The greatest possible number is around two thousand. The unrestrained killing andmost of the executions lasted four days. Thereafter, Hungarians were murdered in Szenttamasonly occasionally.Three common graves were in the cemetery, but there were other graves at the lumbermill, and at the cloister.An eight-year-old girl had accidentally witnessed the slaughter unobserved, and told herparents what she had seen. The neighbors heard the child's report, too. Rumor had it that theinnocent little girl had "harmful" news. The next day the partisans took away the little witnessand executed her.In 1941, seven Serb men died by rifle fire in Bacsfoldvar, and63another seven were arrested by the counter-intelligence in the following years.In 1944, in the same village seventy innocent Hungarian men were led to the bank of theTisza and shot, so that their bodies fell into the river near Gyongy Island.None of the remaining Hungarians in Foldvar remember the 1848 beheading ofHungarian children by the rebel Serbian Frontierguards....SZIVACAt the beginning of the 1940s, seven Serbian men from Szivac were imprisoned andinvestigated by the Hungarian counter-intelligence. Szivac was inhabited by three nationalities,who had lived together in peace for centuries."...I am determined to send you a roll including the names of those who were executed(annihilated) in the morning, on November 1, 1944, because I have been a victim of atrocitiesmyself. It is true that because of the repeated threats all this has been taboo for me, and I did notdare to tell anyone but my family. Honestly, the fear is still alive in me. It is true that newspapersare beginning to publish data concerning these events gradually, but the survivors still do notdare to speak, give their names, or make exact data known, because there is no "democracy", nohuman right to freedom. Only the name has changed, the power has remained the same.I was born in February 1923, in O-Szivac (now Sivac). Then the village was part ofZombor, now it is attached to Kula.