Kemény János: Baja thj. város 1944-1949. évi története a polgármesteri jelentések tükrében 1. - Forrásközlemények 12. (Kecskemét, 2015)
Mellékletek - Summary
In the course of the agrarian reform the territories in the ownership of the city and archdiocese of Kalocsa were distributed. The farms in the ownership of the city, with their full stand of animals were taken over by the Russian army. With the agrarian reform the city lost great wealth and an important source of income, because more than half of the income previously came from this source. The 100 cadastral acres remaining in the city’s ownership was inadequate even for supplying the distillery in Mátéháza. The city’s wealth of horses, sheep and neat, just as the wheat, oats, pea and corn stocks were lost in the course of the war. The breeding animal stock remaining in the ownership of the stock-raising fund became too old for breeding, and their replacement proved to be difficult, often impossible. The ownership of the city over the forests in Csátalja and Gólyahegy was reinstated as part of the agrarian reform, and it also received the Kis Pandúr Island, which was parceled out to the needy in 1946. A major problem for the city was constituted by public works and the housing of soldiers. The manpower necessary was provided and divided up at the beginning by the volunteer “red” public order keeping force, which eventually developed into the police, and later by the public works office. The school buildings of Baja were used for military purposes during the war. The hostilities caused damage in the buildings, furniture and equipment of the schools. After the liberation the education was conducted in private homes. After September 1945 every people’s school could function in its own building. In Bajaszentistván, a part of the city, a school with Southern Slavic (Serbian and Croatian) language of teaching was started in the school year 1946-1947. From this year on, a census of every school age child was conducted and attendance was enforced. The four religious schools of Baja were taken into state ownership in 1948. The responsible authorities also conducted in that year the reform of primary schools. In the sustenance of city day-time care great help was lent by the food, infant nutrition and other donations of the UNRRA, the Swedish, Danish and Swiss Red Cross. A sign of the enrichment of the cultural life with new institutions was the opening of the Rudnay Colony of Artists on 1 November, 1946, the opening of the Rudnay Free Academy of Fine Arts on 22 February, 750
