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  • oral history (2)
  • Hungarian army (1)
  • Soviet military captivity (1)
  • World War II (1)
  • captives of the Western Allies (1)
  • captivity (1)
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  • interwar Czechoslovakia (1)
  • prisoners of war (1)
  • southern Slovakia (1)
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  • Zoltán Kőrös (2)
  • Imre Molnár (1)

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In Captivity of the Western Allies. From Upper Hungary to American, British and French Captivity
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In Captivity of the Western Allies. From Upper Hungary to American, British and French Captivity

Nyugati fogságban. Felvidékiek amerikai, brit és francia fogságban

Author(s): Zoltán Kőrös / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: oral history;world war II;detention camps;captivity;

The second book of Zoltán Kőrös is actually a continuation of his previous volume Muszkaföldön on prisoners of war in Russia. This time he presents interviews with soldiers and leventes (members of paramilitary youth organizations) from Upper Hungary forced during the last winter of World War II to the Third Reich where they were captured by the Western powers. Although not to such extent as war captives of the Soviets (not speaking about the dreadful fate of the Soviet soldiers in German captivity), the recallers were exposed to hunger, adverse weather conditions, diseases, and death also in the American, British, and especially in the French detention camps. In his large-volume introduction based on recalls, the author vivifies this world slowly passing into oblivion, and the roads leading to captivity. Both the captives and the captors are also touched on in the book, as well as the often burdensome, hindered return of the Hungarian captives to their homeland, to the towns and villages of the present South Slovakia. The main part of this publication is constituted of eight individual stories considered by the author as the most special, which describe to us the more or less forced journey of the captives to the Third Reich, until their return home.

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Collaboration Instead of Enmity. Historical Lessons from the Activities of Hungarian Intellectuals in Slovakia in the Interwar Period
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Collaboration Instead of Enmity. Historical Lessons from the Activities of Hungarian Intellectuals in Slovakia in the Interwar Period

Gyűlölködés helyett összefogás. Adalékok a két világháború közti csehszlovákiai magyar értelmiségi és diákmozgalmak történetéhez

Author(s): Imre Molnár / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: interwar Czechoslovakia;student movements;

The interviews in this volume have been produced by the oral history method based on individual life story telling. The primary objective of making them was to gain detailed impression on this forgotten form of the Hungarian minority´s social life in Czechoslovakia between the two world wars, as it had been experienced by the interviewees. They had not only recalled the past events so important from their point of view, but they also “commented” and supplemented them. During the interviews they spoke with strong feeling, reliving their stories with intense emotions, thus helping us gain a more direct, privileged insight into the micro-historical processes of the interwar period, and enabling us to recreate our concept about this historical moment, and assess its significance.Obviously, this does not mean that we could reasonably expect the recallers to objectively remember the past events in precise details. For this reason, besides readers interested in the topic, we recommend this book as a kind of source publication especially to historians dealing with the era. We believe that the period between the two world wars, and within that the history of the Hungarian youth movements, have many unexplored spots rich in values which certainly deserve further historical research. This book is about an almost forgotten part of history of the Hungarians in (Czecho)Slovakia and this, as such, could provide many good examples for the current generation of young people having taken responsibility for their national identity. The main actors of this volume have already become historical figures whose entirely different stories have one important thing in common: they all have devoted their lives to the service of the part of the Hungarian nation disintegrated from Hungary and annexed to (Czecho)Slovakia. And, they have largely remained steadfast in their youthful determination. As a legacy for posterity, they have left an excellent example of humanity, patriotism, and love for one´s nation. Will there be current followers of the past legendary generations?

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Tonight We Are Leaving For the Front… Diaries and Memoirs of Second World War Prisoners from Upper Hungary
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Tonight We Are Leaving For the Front… Diaries and Memoirs of Second World War Prisoners from Upper Hungary

Ma este indulunk a frontra… Felvidékiek naplói és memoárjai a második világháborúból

Author(s): Zoltán Kőrös / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: war memoirs and diaries;oral history;World War II;Hungarian army;prisoners of war;Soviet military captivity;captives of the Western Allies;southern Slovakia

In his work, the author worked up the theme of the Second World War and the military captivity of people from southern Slovakia, which was annexed to the Kingdom of Hungary in November 1938. The source basis of the work is a selection of the most interesting war diaries and later written memoirs, which the author managed to collect during the past seven years of field research, some stories are supplemented by information from oral history interviews. It contains the experience of the generation of inhabitants of southern Slovakia who were most affected by the war—soldiers deployed on its battlefields. The war memoirs and diaries contained in the publication are a unique reflexion on the events at the time and offer an insight into the thoughts and emotions of their authors. The publication opens with a short introduction followed by the main part of the book, the memoirs and diaries themselves, which the author complemented with annotations. Specifically, these are the stories of six members of the Hungarian Armed Forces and one civilian. Two of them (Nándor Juszkó, József Kemény) were soldiers deployed on the Eastern Front, but most of them were forced to withdraw during the last months of the war to the territory of the Third Reich. Of course, their stories did not end on May 8, 1945, most of them fell into military captivity: the Soviet one (Nándor J uszkó), but most of all, into the captivity of the Western Allies. For each story, there is added a short biography of the originator of the diary or memoir. The publication also includes photos and samples of original war diaries or memoirs.

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