Recsk forced labor camp

The camp is located in the county of Heves, 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) southwest of the center of the village of Recsk, near the quarry of the Csákány hill (Hungarian: Csákány-kő) in Mátra, at an altitude of 400 meters (1312 feet) above sea level (47°54′18.61″N 20°5′37.24″E / 47.9051694°N 20.0936778°E / 47.9051694; 20.0936778).

He reached Vienna and then travelled to Munich, Germany, where, in a broadcast on Radio Free Europe, he talked about the camp and read out the names of several hundred fellow prisoners[11].

[9] All former inmates were forced to sign a statement of secrecy on their release, acknowledging that all "news and data" about the camp constitutes "state secret" and telling anything about their detention is punishable with up to 10 years in prison, in case their action is "not classified as a more serious offence".

[9][12] George Faludy, Hungarian poet, writer and translator had been condemned with fictitious accusations and imprisoned in the Recsk forced labour camp, where he served years.

According to him: The largest groups were the social democrats – usually old trade-union men, strike leaders, who could not get used to having to serve the interests of the state instead of those of the working class; former army officers who had gone over to the Russians in 1944 and believed that they would be able to organize an independent Hungarian army; the leading men of the different parties whom the communists had asked in 1945 to organize local smallholder or social democratic cells and who, three years later, had been arrested for having done so; kulaks, who were made to disappear in order that their lands might be expropriated, and poor peasants who were appointed kulaks, so that when the real thing was lacking they in turn could be made to disappear; so-called undisciplined workers from large factories who were arrested in order to frighten their fellow-workers; and élite workers who were arrested to frighten their fellow-workers even more.