Wicker Erika (szerk.): Cumania 28. - A Kecskeméti Katona József Múzeum évkönyve (Kecskemét, 2018)
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Summaries printing and publishing in the area, which is closely interrelated to the technical and intellectual developments of the period. László Kürti - Klára Papp pp. 217-236 "MEN ARE COUNTED AS BEASTS" - WORLD WAR I DIARY OF PÁL KÓNYA JR. (1899-1918) Pál Kónya Jr. was conscripted into the 32. Infantry Regiment of the K.u.K.army in March 1918. After minimal training, he was assigned to a special searchlight regiment in Vienna, where his unit was stationed. He began his diary in February 1918 but recorded nothing unusual at first, they spent most of the days with practicing and learning light signals. Several times he was visited by his parents, at one occassion he also received a short break: he was able to go home for a few days. The diary becomes more eventful after April 15, when Kónya and his fellow soldiers left Vienna. Throughout the Austrian countryside, he describes the long train ride, the scenery and people they see. Finally, they arrive to Northern Italy, the town of Trient (today Trento), and for the next two months his unit moves around the mountainous region along the Brenta river. The diary, full of preparatory activities and skirmishes between the Austro-Hungarian and Italian forces, is writen in a simple, honest language. Kónya describes the hardships they endured, often suffering from hunger and sleeplessness. Not having adequate food supply, soldiers were forced to steal, at one occassion they resorted to cook nettle-soup (Urtica dioica) for themselves. Weakened and sick, we learn from his diary entry that he was hiding from enemy fire in a mountain cove with the last words: "I have no faith anymore". He died of exhaustion and typhoid fever and was buried with several hundred fallen soldiers in a common grave in Trento, Italy. Éva Mácsainé Iván pp. 237-248 "LET THE HUNGARIANS HAVE THEIR BORDER FORT IN THE CSAJKÁS". PLANS TO SETTLE WAR CRIPPLES IN THE CSAJKÁS DISTRICT WWI brought considerable changes in terms of warfare technics compared to the wars of the proceeding centuries. The large number of war cripples necessitated the planning of the development of a care system. There were various ideas about settling them, which, besides the obvious humanitarian relevance, was also a prominent state interest. The idea of settling down the men crippled in the war originated from Canon Mihály Nagy from Csúrog. His aim was to strengthen the Hungarian ethnic presence as opposed to Serbians in the Csajkás District. At last, this plan remained a plan, no direct actions were taken. During the priests from Csajkáslak corresponded with the Archbishopric Seat of Kalocsa and the War Pensioner Office, the time was late for such initiatives. After the change in the authority in the Csajkás District, the area became part of the territory of Serbia. Norberta Sági pp. 249-264 DATA ON THE LIFESTYLE OF VARIOUS SOCIAL GROUPS FARMERS INVOLVED IN THE VEGETABLE AND FRUIT PRODUCTION AT KECSKEMÉT, IN THE EARLY 20™ CENTURY Following from its extended borderlands, the majority of Kecskemét's population earned their living from agriculture. At the turn of the 19-20th centuries, in most Hungarian towns the ratio of 363
