A cservenkai exhumálások története
History of the Chervenka Exhumations

Summary/Abstract: During World War II, some 6000 Hungarian citizens were deported to the Serbian town of Bor for forced labour. On their return journey to Hungary, about 3000 forced labourers reached the brick factories of Chervenka in the Western Bácska region. In the night of 7 October 1944 about 700 to 1000 Jewish forced labourers were killed there by German soldiers with the assistance of Hungarian troops. Among the surviving labourers a further 400 were killed by the Germans on the way from Chervenka to the border of present-day Hungary. In the brick factories and along the roads the corpses remained unburied. The local people and the representatives of both the old and the new regime did make efforts to inter the dead, but these only yielded partial results. Of those killed in the brick factories, which have been continuously functioning ever since, as well as of those slain along the march, some fifty percent still rest on or near the very spot wehere they were killed. The only registered Chervenka mass grave, that in the Jewish cemetery of Zombor, contained the remnants of about 700 Jewish forced labourers of Bor.

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