Památník pracovního tábora v Recsku
The Recsk Labour Camp Memorial

Summary/Abstract: A forced labour camp was established in October 1950, which was unusual in that the prisoners were completely isolated from the outside world. Those who were sent to the camp completely vanished, and their families had no reports about them. Even the locals had no idea that there was a camp in the forests, some three kilometres from the village of Recsk. The prisoners worked in the nearby stone quarry. Everything was under the control of the Hungarian secret political police ÁVH (Államvédelmi Hatóság). Just like elsewhere, and possibly even more so here due to the nature of the camp, the prisoners were exposed to the cruelty of the guards, hunger, cold, and most importantly the exhausting 14–16 hours of hard labour every day. Some 1500 prisoners in total were imprisoned in the camp during its existence.

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