REMEMBRANCE IN TIME - Index of

Csilla GÁL: The Activity of the People's Court Through Some Cases 53
Mohos Sándor, Kurucz János, Kormány Lajos, Kovács Sándor, Dávid Balázs
I chose some of the files which I found interesting to present- the reason for me having
chosen them is that these cases were representative ( we have some cases like that) and
there are cases which are interesting because of the punishment or the reasoning itself.
Károly Kis (7th July 1909): he was the teacher of the Reformed/Calvinist Girls’
Grammar School and was the general director of the Trade Dance School.
As he had been the member of the Turul Fellowship Society he was warned and the
only reason for not having been punished that he had not have an office/position in the
society.
Imre Bereczki (29th June 1889): worked for the Hungarian State Police- he was a
retired sergeant-major. Balázs Dávid made a registration in his case by the police and he
reported that Berecki had claimed in October 1944 near the mortuary of the hospital: „I
have already said that these damned communists want this. They want to be viceroys and
mayors – and Balázs Dávid can clearly understand this. In the low-case Mihály Demeter
(interpreter) made a confession who had heard of these things only from Balázs Dávid-
and Sándor Varga, mechanic who on the whole justified the things that were said about
Bereckzi. Who also reported Sándor Orosz’s words who worked at the hospital as
caretaker and who had been present when those words had been said, but he claimed that
he did not remember any of those words.
Imre Berecki said at the court that his words sounded totally differently, there had not
been concrete references to people and he only had said those thing because of the terrible
sight of the dead and what he exactly said then was: lots of people expect the people to
decay this way to be able to occupy their offices and positions. The head of the committee
was Imre Molnár but Sándor Szenti was also a member of the committee who had an idea
that based ont he confessions heard in the court that the suspect acted in a way which
requires to be examined by the justificatory committee. …He proposes that the suspect
should have been provided with the 20 % of his fee while the process is taking place.
It is true that the committee accepted Sándor Szenti’s recommendation unanimously but it
is typical that he was the one who initiated.
Finally his post was taken away from him and he was deprived of his rights and claims.
They were ’grateful’ in a way because they took into account his state of health and his
age and because of this they decided that they would not take him into custody/would not
arrest him.
3 Zombory István a helyi SZDP vezetı személyisége, 1945 elıtt a polgárırség vezetıje, majd
1945. januárjától áprilisig rendırkapitány Vásárhelyen.