Cseri Miklós - Horváth Anita - Szabó Zsuzsanna (szerk.): Discover Rural Hungary!, Guide (Szentendre, Hungarian Open Air Museum, 2007)

VII Southern Transdanubia - VII-2 House from Hidas

VII-2 Evacuation and population exchange Between 1945 and 1947 there were great changes in the territories inhabited by Germans in Hungary. Most of the German-speaking inhabitants, such as the owner of this house, Johann Lukas and his family were relocated to Germany. They were replaced by Székely people coming from Bukovina and Hungarian people from Northern Hungary arriving as refugees. Székelys from Bukovina had been settled in Bácska in 1941, but they had to flee from the returning Serbian troops in 1944 and were only able to begin a new life in present day Hungary after a long time of wandering. Some of the Hungarians from the Uplands were also punished on the basis of collective guilt after World War II. They also had to leave their home and were moved into the houses, previously inhabited by Germans. Julianna Varga. It has a hidden kitchen-range, the cooking-range being in the kitchen, the oven in the back room providing heating as well. Their son, József and his wife Teréz Dani with their two small children, József and Erzsébet, lived in the back room and used the back kitchen. It is evening and they are preparing to bath their baby. József used to work in the local mine and was not a farmer Apart from the blue-dying workshop this is the only dwelling where electricity is installed.