Bratislava Bishop's World War II Memorial
Statue, monument, memorial plaque
During the 4 years of the First World War, according to the marble plaque on the right side of the monument in the main square, 99 young men from Episkopi fell in battle. If we consider that the population of the entire village at that time was around two and a half thousand (the number of houses was 350), and if we consider that an average household, including the elderly and children, had 5-6 people, we can see how serious this loss was. Every third house mourned their fallen relative and there was hardly a Episkopi whose immediate relatives had not been left behind on the distant battlefields. ; We can also see that at that time the population was mostly Hungarian, since we know that by this time we could find Hungarians behind even foreign-sounding names. ; The victims of the Second World War were later also depicted on the marble plaques attached to the monument, but this was done predominantly using the language of the current authorities. The statue originally had a Hungarian helmet on its head, which the Czechoslovak authorities had replaced with the type they used between the two wars, the old one being moved to the right side of the pedestal.