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village. They did not even blindfold him. One of these partisans, named Vlastan, still lives in thevillage and goes about with the veterinarian, helping him with104vaccinations. I know the partisan who went to the priest after the execution and pumped twobullets in his head. His name is Vitamir and he works at the town hall. Janos Koncsik was alsoexecuted on the main square, publicly."Janos Molnar, 1928:"I was living at Peterreve when the Hungarian army evacuated. This was on October 8th or 10th.The partisans arrested the policemen and the priest first. They arrested Istvan Teleki, formerarmy notary. Janos Furtos and his wife. police officer Kalman Kristof. Dezso Kelemen, a teacherand former Levente instructor. Dezso Helenyi, a butcher and his wife who was in the seventhmonth of her pregnancy. a farmer called Buzogany. and Peter Becsei and his son. A Personcalled Tuske was shot in the street. About five hundred Hungarians were taken to the cellar ofthe gendarmerie barracks, and they all disappeared without a trace.As a fifteen year old Levente, I was ordered to dig trenches and mounds at the Tisza River inJuly and August 1944. These were the mounds in which the partisans shot the Hungarians theybrought there. Fishermen found a corpse on the bank and recognized it as Dezso Kelemen. Iheard Andras Deli, who lived by the river, say that he had seen the partisans preparing to drownKalman Kristof. He begged on his knees not to be executed in such a way. Out of mercy he wasmade to stand in the end of a boat and was shot into the Tisza." (Istvan Nagy, 1929, Kevevara)A Serbian gendarme had been shot in a gun battle by the advancing Hungarian troops in 1941.The 35 persons apprehended by Hungarian counter-intelligence as communists or suspiciouselements had included 21 Hungarians, 9 Serbs, 3 Jews and 2 Slovaks.The partisans collected about a hundred Hungarian residents of Peterreve at the same time asFather Ferenc Takacs was arrested. These people were tormented and tortured in the schoolbuilding without food or drink for three or four days. Finally they were led to the river and shotdead, some into the water and some into the riverside trenches, that had been dug the previousyear by Leventes. The rooms of the school were tidied up. The bloody straw was collected,burnt. With some vicious pedantry, new straw was strewn for the newly arrested innocentHungarian men, who were tortured till they bled just like their predecessors in suffering anddeath.The hatred of the local Serbs set the vengeful partisans against Dr Ferenc Takacs, a Catholicpriest with strong Hungarian105sentiments. He was stripped of his cassock, and exposed to the tortures of sadistic femalepartisans. These acts were aimed especially at the sex organ of the clergyman who had vowedcelibacy. At first they tried pliers, but since they were determined to prolong the torture, theywent on to burn Takacs's penis from the glands upwards with a piece of iron heated on the forgeof the blacksmith nearby.