Bács-Kiskun megye múltjából 12. (Kecskemét, 1993)

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mostly known. However our historiography still owes for the regional writings up, which is expected to tinge the national image and reveal the concrete events carried out in certain regions. Just for the reason this paper reveals the function of the civil refugee camps working in the territory between the rivers Danube and Tisza. The organization of the Polish military and civil refugee camps started in November, 1939 by order of Richard Kászoni Lord Lieutenant in the former Bács-Bodrog county. Polish soldiers were stationed at frontier guard—barracks in Gara and Tompa, while Baja had to provide for the civil refugees aimed at there. Setting up the camps was finished by the first days of December 1939 all in the three communities, but the continuous work of Baja camp started only by January, 1940. There was the possibility to billet 250 Polish military persons in Tompa and 200 similar persons in Gara. After staying for a few days or weeks these persons continued on their way towards the West through Jugoslavia with the help of the residents of the communities. Dr. Sándor Bernhard mayor became the commander of the Polish civil refugee camp of Baja. Instead of the 200 undertaken refugees nearly 1500 Polish refugees moved in Baja. As they arrived in larger groups, so they disappeared almost in the same ratio, in the beginning sparsely, then 20 up to 30 persons a day, too. Mostly the men were, who moved on. One of their groups formed by the young Polish men, who had not been enlisted as a soldier in the army in Poland yet, so they arrived in Hungary really as civil refugees, however their final aim was to join forces with the Polish army being under organization in France. Another group was consisting of the very soldiers who deserting from the military camps first applied to the civil refugee camps in order to legalize their sojourns and afterwards to escape towards to the West with the papers obtained in this place. The Baja camp was wound up on July 16th 1940. On the northern part of Bács-Kiskun county of today — which was previously attached to Pest—Pilis-Solt-Kiskun county — Polish civil refugee camps were functioning in the below listed communities: Bástya, Dusnok, Ersekcsanád, Fajsz and Homokmégy. The Ministry of the Interior entrusted dr. Gyula Hazay chief magistrate of Kalocsa district with the organization of the camps. He administered the administrative business, managed the directive and control of the economic and accounting affairs of the camps from February 1st, 1942. The winding-up of the camps functioning in the territory of Kalocsa district can not be determined exactly owing to the scantiness of documentation. It remains certain that Polish civil refugee camps were functioing in the territory of the district in July, 1943 yet.