A bori menet Tarjánpusztán. Radnóti Miklós egy Győr előtti téglagyárban
The „March of Bor” at Tarjánpuszta. The Poet Miklós Radnóti in a Brick Factory before Gyõr

Summary/Abstract: During World War II some 6000 Hungarian Jews were taken as forced labourers to the Serbian village of Bor. In the fall of 1944 about 1500 of them returned to Szentkirályszabadja (Fejér county, Hungary). From there they were set on march upon the order of the Minister of Defence along the road leading through Zirc, Gyõr and Hegyeshalom towards the Austrian border. The march, which departed at the end of October or the first days of November, included among others the poet Miklós Radnóti and the lawyer Péter Erdõs. During the march the forced labourers were accomodated either in the open air or in brick factories and manorial buildings. They took a two-day halt at Gyõrszentmárton (Pannonhalma), halfway between Szentkirályszabadja and Hegyeshalom. On the basis of the sources hitherto used, the place of accomodation was identified with the brick factory of Gyõrszentmárton. Yet the documents of the People’s Tribunal prove beyond doubt that it was in fact the manor of nearby Tarjánpuszta which hosted the labourers and their escort then. Nevertheless, it cannot be excluded that some of the forced labourers did spend the night in the brick factory of Tarjánpuszta. During the stay there, one person died, for György Schwartz was shot dead by sergeant Ferenc Asztalos. He was buried in the manor itself, but his grave is still unidentified. The grave of Asztalos, on the other hand, who was convicted and executed as a criminal of war in 1947, is exactly known: he lays among the martyrs of the nation in block 298 of the New Public Cemetery at Rákoskeresztúr.

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