Honouring History: Hungarian Soldiers of World Wars I and II Reburied in Budapest

Addressing a re-burial ceremony of WW1 and WW2 Hungarian soldiers at the Fiumei Street Cemetery on Tuesday, the defence minister said that “the homeland will never forget those who gave their life for it; their memory will live on forever not only in history books, but in our hearts as well.”

“The sacrifice of those heroes is eternal and timeless, it paves the way for survivors to live on, and to freedom,” Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky said.

He noted that as a result of the dedicated work of experts one hundred soldiers had found “their new, deserved eternal place to rest, 85 of whom are here with us today on the last call for formation to receive from us their the last, due bid farewell”.

According to information provided by the defence ministry, experts of the Military History Institute and Museum has completed the exhumation of 1,234 fallen soldiers at 34 sites in 16 counties this year.

The remains of the 30 Soviet and 20 German soldiers exhumed have been turned over to the foreign partner organisations.

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