Cikó in Tolna County The following article is a summary of “Cikó: Ein Heimatbuch über die Ortsgeschichte unsere Dorfes in Ungarn” compiled by Adreas Reder and published in 1999. Located in the lofty hills of southern Tolna County, Cikó lies six kilometres away from Bonyhád to which it has gravitated throughout its history. …
Category: Second World War
Syrem, Slavonia, Baranya
Syrem, Slavonia, Baranya The Cauldron Srem: When the Beasts Ruled “Whoever cannot work will not be allowed to live” Semlin The German population in Srem and Slavonia was scattered and isolated and lived among Croats and Serbs who formed a majority in the mixed communities in which many of them lived. But alongside…
Völkermord der Tito-Partisanen
Völkermord der Tito-Partisanen 1944-1948 sterreichische Historiker-Arbeitsgemeinschaft Für Kärnten und Steiermark Translated by Henry Fischer Genocide Carried out by the Tito Partisans 1944-1948 Chapter One General Introduction There were approximately one half of a million persons of German origin living in Yugoslavia before the Second World War according to the census of March 31, 1931. …
Bickács In the Tolna
Bickács In the Tolna The founding of Bikács by the High Sheriff of Tolna County, Baron Joseph Rudnyansky, officially began with the arrival of Heidebauern Lutherans in the early part of the 18th Century. These pioneering families undertook all of the tasks and struggles associated with settlement in an area that had become a total…
Bátaszék in the Tolna: A History
Bátaszék in the Tolna: A History The information in this article is taken from the Heimatbuch written by Johannes Gӧbelt and is partially a translation and summary. Following the fall of Belgrade to the Turks on August 29, 1521 the borders of Hungary were vulnerable to attack. On August 16, 1526 young King…
Deportation and Expulsion of the Hungarian Germans (4)
The Expulsion and Resettlement of the Germans of Hungary The expulsion is a tragic and dramatic chapter in the 300 years in which the Magyars and Germans shared a common life together. (Translator’s Note: The author seems to be unaware of the 1,000 year history of the Heidebauern in Western Hungary who were…
Deportation and Expulsion of the Hungarian Germans (3)
The Population Exchange in Swabian Turkey The first phase was the settlement of the Seklers. Their homeland was in Bukovina which was awarded to Romania in the Second Vienna Accords. This an ancient Magyar ethnic group found its future less and less secure in the changing situation around them. It became harder and…
Deportation and Expulsion of the Hungarian Germans (2)
Life in the Camps The camp buildings were quite old. It appears that in the past the camp had served earlier as a holding facility or prison. Men and women were housed in separate wings of the complex. There was a heating apparatus inside to heat the rooms. Bunk beds filled the entire…
Deporation and Expulsion of the Hungarian Germans
The Expulsion and Deportation of the German Hungarians of Gyönk in Swabian Turkey The submission that follows is based on my translation of portions of Zur Vertreibung und Verschleppung der Ungarndeutschen aus der Schwäbischen Türkei unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Ortes Gyönk/Jink by Josef Kiss published in München 1995 by the Donauschwäbisches Archiv. Swabian…
Deportation to Slave Labour in Russia
The following information is based on a summary and my translation of Die Verschleppung ungarnländische Deutschen 1944/1945 that first appeared in Hungarian and was translated into German in an unpublished manuscript that came into my possession without the name of the author. With only a few exceptions Hungarian historians have only recently acknowledged that…