Ewa Krasinska - Ryszard Kantor: Derenk és Istvánmajor (Borsodi Kismonográfiák 31. Miskolc, 1988)

traditions were their parents, now dead. Ihe continuity of the cultural transmission was broken in great measure because of the conditions in Istvánmajor, the pressure of the Hungarian environment and the social and cultural changes after the World War II. As a result of this process one may notice a considerable, and in certain sections even striking, disapperance of the memory of the traditional culture which was flourishing in Derenk not more than 60-80 years ago. It is not only the traditional culture of the descendants of the settlers from Poland that is disappearing. It is more and more evident that the existance of the village Istvanmajor is coming to an end. Ihe member of abandoned farms in increasing from year to year and their owners move to their children who have long been living in the cities. The village is being deserted at such a rate that probably in 15 or 20 years only the surnames on the cemetary crosses will remind of the fact that there once lived the descendants of the settlers from Poland. At the present moment it is difficult to answer the question to what degree the former inhabitants of Istvánmajor and their descendants who are scattered all over Hungary will retain the awareness of the Polish origin. It will depend, first of all, on their contacts with the Polish contemporary culture. 143