weeks spent starving, laying on straw full of lice and blood in the Kronich Palace. Here everyonebelieved themselves condemned to death, as they did not know who would be the next ones to beloaded on trucks heading for the Danube or the Ferenc Canal.There were also bound prisoners, taken by force to the race track where they foundcommon graves waiting for them. The partisans did rather a rough and ready job on theexecutions. Not all the victims were hit mortally, these too were rolled into the grave. Frombeneath the layers of half-buried bodies, one could still hear moaning of the people still aliveseveral hours later. 2,500 people were executed in the Race Course aloneMore than once, the tortured ones were forced to run over hot embers barefoot, beforebeing driven in front of the firing-line. It is said that the platform of the recently finished busterminal is the marker over a huge mass grave. The other "depot", the barracks, was only used astemporary quarters that November. There "only" two hundred people were shot at most.A young Serbian butcher from Monostorszeg, who was taken into the ranks of thepartisans because of his butchering skills, boasted sometime later that he took part in theexecution of at least three thousand people.According to some brave parish priests of ours who collected information in theneighborhood of Zombor, 5,650 innocent Hungarians fell victim to the vendetta till the middle ofNovember. Drawing up a final list, if only for their remembrance, seems impossible.Let us remember one person, however, the Judge Istvan Sugar, who went to buy somebread one day and never returned.VERBASZThe Hungarians remaining in the richest village of Bacska remember that three hundredand fifty people disappeared from among them. The murderers forced them to dig their massgrave in the cemetery.There were burials in the vicinity of the hemp-processing factory of Overbasz. To makethings easier, the murderers also threw dead bodies and some that were still alive, into wells.The memory of the Germans who were driven away and executed is fostered by theHungarians in Verbasz."Hearing you," a letter reads, "is as if the graves that hide our dead, ages 14-60, weresuddenly in front of me. There is one grave in the cemetery of Verbasz, where there are onehundred120and one bodies. (The list of names can be found in a <strong>book</strong> published in West Germany.) Theseare the victims of the notorious investigations of November. They were usually taken away threetimes; first they were allowed to go home without being in any way injured; the second timethey were driven home completely naked; then the third time they were headed for the cemetery.In 1967, I went to the Cemetery with my family. My aunt only dared to show me the grave withher back to it. In it lay my war-disabled uncle, the headmaster and teachers of the localHungarian grammar school, and the Germans who had sympathized with the Hungarians andwho had stayed behind in their naivete.
In the spring of 1945 came the suffering in the Gajdobra Labor Camp for several months.My aunt was taken there with her four children and also her parents (the Transylvanian writerKaroly Molter's brother and niece). Insufficient food, saltless gruel and unripe ears of corn tooklives. Only a seven and a one-and-a-half year old child survived it, because they were released atthe request of my aunt, whose husband had been killed.I remember that the local Serbians once sent a petition to my father, he was the localdoctor, asking us to stay because life had to go on and they would guarantee our safety. Myparents did not want any more of a minority life and decided to leave.The most horrible things were not done by the inhabitants of the village, but by Tito'spartisans with the help of a few local villains. These were: Gyakula Pero, Sijadcki Vlado, andone named Marko who was familiar with the local circumstances.Please be discreet with these rather personal comments, because one can never be carefulenough and I have grandchildren living there and I would like to go home from time to time."
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