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government could save the Lace-makers' House. After that the operation of the workshop was helped by publishing brochures and organising exhibitions. Raising a monument to the memory of Árpád Dékáni and Mária Markovics on 20 August, 1994 at the entrance of the Lace-makers's House was unveiled a statue by Károly Barth titled Lace-makers. MRS ILONA KEMÉNYNÉ PINTÉR CELEBRATIONAL COMMEMORATION IN DUNAPATAJ ON THE 20

th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CARNAGE OF DUNAPATAJ IN 1919 The counter-revolutionary activities against the Hungarian Soviet Republic started 18 June, 1919 with a protest meeting against the recruiting and ended in the afternoon of the 23 June after a hanging. During the fight between the inhabitants and Tibor Szamuely and in the hours after that 63 men died in the village. 13 of them were hung, the others died during the fight and in the gunfight after that. 18 June, 1939 there was a commemoration in honour of them within the frame of a great anniversary in front of the martyrs' column. MRS MÁRTA KŐFALVINÉ ÓNODI REUNION OF THE GRADUATES AND DEDICATIONOF THE MÓRA MEMORIAL TABLET IN KISKUNFÉLEGYHÁZA (1935) Ferenc Móra the writer, journalist, museologist and archaeologist famous all over the country was born in Kiskunfélegyháza. He spent his childhood and graduated there in the local secondary grammar school in 1897. Mihály (Eisler) Lászlóffy dr, Judge of High Court of Justice, who graduated two years before Móra, came up with the idea of commemorating a classmate, who died in 1934, having become famous for his literary and archaeological work. He organised their 40-year-class reunion involving graduates of 15 years meanwhile they paid their respect to Ferenc Móra in the course of the reunion celebration. It was not only special because of its greatness with 235 graduates at the two-day ceremony but also the Móra commemoration increased the importance of the event when the sculptor Hugó Keviczky

's Móra monument was unveiled. It was placed onto the wall of the Secondary Grammar School of Kiskunfélegyháza. The expenses of the relief of Mora's portrait were financed by the graduates. The inscription carved in the red marble calls the memory of Mora's student years.