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Pamätník prenasledovaní - Meghurcoltak emlékműve

Memorial to the Persecuted

Péter Gáspár
1999

Komárno - Komárom / Pamätník prenasledovaní - Meghurcoltak emlékműve

Description

Limestone sculpture depicting several people under a heavy burden.

Inscription(s)

IN MEMORIAM 1944-1948

Signed: gáspár / 1999

Annotation

The monument is both a memorial to the Hungarians executed during the public administration in southern Slovakia in 1945-48 and the deportations under the administration of the Communists after 1948.

Sculptor

Péter Gáspár (1951), Slovak sculptor.

Sources & Information

Köztérkép.
Databank of Hungarians in Slovakia, Research on usage of Hungarian language in Southern Slovakia.

Locatie (N 47°45'31" - E 18°7'35") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: skni030; Photograph: 6 September 2012
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