Bust of Dr. Kálmán Janics

The work of sculptor László Szabó from Galanta was placed in front of the building of the Hungarian Language Elementary School in Vágkirályfa. It was unveiled on September 9, 2006. ; Janics Kálmán (* 29 Dec. 1912, Vágkirályfa, † 20 Aug. 2003, Vágkirályfa) was a historian, politician, and physician. He graduated from the Hungarian Gymnasium in Bratislava (1931), and obtained his medical degree from the University of Bratislava (1937). Between 1937–1942, he was a hospital assistant physician first in Trenčín and then in Komárom, a soldier in 1943–1945, a private physician in Nádszeg in 1945, a private physician in Jolsván in 1946–1949, and a city physician in the same city between 1949–1978. In 1979, he was banned from the Rožňava district due to the Swiss publication of his book Years of Homelessness, so he moved back to his native village and was a doctor at the Duslo and Hydrostav companies in Vágsellye until 1989. He took an active public role during the 1989 regime change, being one of the founders and honorary president of the Hungarian Christian Democratic Movement. He was a member of parliament from 1990 to 1992. He published from 1936, but his articles were not published in Hungary for political reasons between 1945 and 1968 (he was detained for questioning in September–November 1945 and again in July–August 1950). In 1968–1970, he published numerous fact-finding articles in Hungarian newspapers in Czechoslovakia about the hardships of the Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945 and the nationality issue. His best-known and most important work is The Years of Homelessness, which was first published in Bern with a foreword by Gyula Illyés (1979), and then in 1989 two new editions were published in Budapest (published in English in 1982, in Slovak in 1994). The book presents the fate of Hungarians in Slovakia between 1945 and 1948 in the light of facts and contemporary documents. His main awards and prizes: Gábor Bethlen Award (1989), János Esterházy Memorial Plaque (1992), Pro Probitate – The Award for Probability (1998), Middle Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic (1998). – Fm. The Years of Statelessness (mon., 1979 Bern, 1989 Budapest), The Košice Government Program and the "collective guilt" of the Hungarians (theory, n. n.), We Got Lost in Europe (publ., 1994).