Tamás Csapody. The Forced Laborers of Bor: Chapters from the History of the Forced Laborers of Bor Cover Image

Csapody, Tamás. Bori Munkaszolgálatosok: Fejezetek a Bori Munkaszolgálat Történetéből.
Tamás Csapody. The Forced Laborers of Bor: Chapters from the History of the Forced Laborers of Bor

Author(s): Julia Bock
Subject(s): Review
Published by: AHEA: E-Journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association

Summary/Abstract: This book describes the fate of six thousand forced laborers at the Bor labor camp during the Second World War. Bor, one of the most infamous scenes of the Hungarian Holocaust, located in Serbia, was particularly important, as it supplied 50% of the copper for the German army’s needs. Forced laborers were assigned to the mines and to deliver the copper the German plans called for the expanding the railroad network through this mountainous region. Relatively late in the history of the War, in 1943, the desperate German army requested additional workers for Bor from Hungary and these arrived as forced laborers, 93% of whom were Jewish , but included Jehovah Witnesses and Seventh Day Adventists as well, because of the latter two groups refusal to bear arms.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 05
  • Page Range: 1-3
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: English