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Remembrance in Time
Imre Tóth (1888.03.06.) – detective group leader. There were more prosecutions against
him according to which he made anti-communist statements. In his law-case there
appeared a witness who gave evidence in favor of him. First the committee ordered his
retirement. It’s worth having a look at the reassign:
However the committee did not find incriminating data against the suspect in the
testimonies which could refer to anything harmful for the society but it was assessed that
the suspect is unable to serve the public here in the democratic Hungary. It was assessed
as a fact by the committee that the suspect made public service in 1919 which service was
continuous for the next 30 years and was so adequate that he got in the detective group
leader position. As the function of the committee is to find reliable servants for the
democratic system it is clear that a servant who had been appropriate for the previous
system would be as appropriate for the present one.
But after the above judgment he got a more gentle one on the 11th of May in 1945: he
was decapitated from his position and he was looked at as he had died on the very day of
the when the order became effective and this way his family could get his pension. And
what paradoxical is, that the next sentence sais: the public servant deprived of his rights
can not serve in the public sphere anymore and can not be placed in a leading position in
the private sphere and finally, he can not be given a public commission.
László Erdei – paper discount trader. He was reprimanded because he had been the
member of the Baross Alliance and he prosecutes two Jewish mongers because of having
overrun the closing time. (It is clear from his case that it is yet not about the restricted
opening hours of the Jewish shops but about breaking the agreement which had been
contracted between the paper-traders of the town).
Dezsı Falábú – was the teacher of the Bethlen Secondary Grammar School. He was
accused that he had joined János Szatmári’s statement in an article published in the
Népújság on the 1st of June in 1944 and that he had made statements against the people.
Actually the Calvinist charity orphancy had been laid in the place where the Jewish
ghetto was to be designated. That is why he asked for not placing the ghetto there in that
building – so he only wanted to stand for the interest of the church and the children (who
had lived in that building). The committee passed on his case to the local board and he
died because he had had health problems with his heart before and could not suffer the
torture. His sisters turned to the committee in his case in vein it rejected their request.
Zoltán Ivánka – doctor. He was accused that he had examined the Jewish women
inappropriately. The head was again Sándor Szenti and the committee passed on his case
to the local board and there they slandered him. Finally he was deprived of his position
and even his pension was taken away from him.