Janics Kalman

* Vágkirályfa, December 29, 1912 – † Vágkirályfa, August 20, 2003 / physician, historian, politician ; ; He graduated from the Hungarian Gymnasium in Bratislava in 1931, and in 1937 he obtained a diploma from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Bratislava. Between 1937 and 1942 he was a hospital assistant in Trenčín and then in Komárom. From 1943 to 1945 he fought as a soldier in World War II. In 1945 he was a private physician in Nádszeg, in 1946–1949 in Jolsván, and from 1949 to 1978 he was a city physician there. When the book The Years of Homelessness, which summarizes the history of the deportation of the Hungarians from the Upper Hungary after 1945, was published in Switzerland in 1978, His work was banned from the Rožňava district, and he returned to his native village, where the Czechoslovak political police placed him under strict surveillance. Between 1979 and 1989, he was the company doctor of the Duslo and Hydrostav companies in Vágselly. After the change of regime in 1989, he took an active political role in Hungarian public life in the Upper Hungary: he became one of the founders and honorary president of the Hungarian Christian Democratic Movement, and in 1990–1992, he was a representative of the Bratislava parliament. He had been publishing since the mid-1930s, but due to their content, these articles were not publicly available after 1945. During the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia, between 1968 and 1970, he published several fact-finding articles in the Upper Hungary newspapers about the deportation of Hungarians in Czechoslovakia after 1945 and the nationality issue. In 1989 he was awarded the Bethlen Gábor Award, in 1998 the Pro Probitate Award. In 1998 he received the Middle Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary. A bust was erected in his hometown. ; ; His main works: Our Crisis through the Eyes of the Uplands, 1939, ; The Years of Homelessness, 1978 (English: 1982, ; Slovak: 1994), ; The Košice Government Program and the “Collective Guilt” of the Hungarians, 1993, ; We Got Lost in Europe, 1994.