Vága
The Royal Hungarian Army in the square in front of the school
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Vága, March 14, 1939; The Royal Hungarian Army in the square in front of our school. This is the day when Vága became part of Hungary again since Trianon (June 4, 1920). The retreating Czechoslovak delegation handed over the village of Vága to the commander of the advancing Hunga...
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Editke Józsa recites the Hungarian Creed
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Vága, probably March 14, 1939; Editke Józsa recites the three-line “national prayer” of the Horthy era, the Hungarian Unity of Faith, on the school balcony. ; Next to her are the village dignitaries: from the right, Lajos Sandula, village judge, from the left, Tibor Kneif, school...
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János Jalsovszky smoking a cigarette
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Vága probably March 14, 1939. ; The population of the village of Mátyusföld: ; According to the 1870 census data, 1644 people. (814 men and 830 women). By religion: 1614 Roman Catholics, 30 Jews. There were 259 houses in the village at that time. ; In 1890, the population was 211...
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The unforgettable day
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Vága, March 14, 1939; On November 2, 1938, the valiant Béla Imrédy himself (the 31st Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary) announced on Kossuth Radio the names of the towns that had returned to the motherland. At that time, the village of Vága still remained in Czechoslovakia...
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Vagaianly: the Hungarian-Slovak border is "in the circle"
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Vága, perhaps March 14, 1939; According to the Budapest agreement of Colonel Rudolf Andorka (Colonel of the General Staff of the Royal Hungarian Army) and General Rudolf Viest (the only general of Slovak origin in Czechoslovakia between the two world wars) of March 2, 1939, the m...
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Wedding procession on Main Street in the 1960s
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Vága, 1960s; In the photo: Ferenc Recht, Erzsébet Szlízs, György Kulcsár, Vera Farkas, Miklós Recht, József Sztoklasz, Teréz Polakovics, Gabriella Adamkó, Gyula Farkas, Erzsébet Pulai, Melinda Szűcs, László Farkas...
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Wedding group photo from 1950
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Vága, 1950. ; Back row from left to right: Fördős, Ferenc Jalsovszky, József Sztoklasz, István Karácsony, Rozália Karácsony. ; Standing from left to right: ?, István Forró, Smíkal (Olomouc), Kamenár (best man), Árpád Jakubecz, ?, Gyula Patkoló. ; Sitting from left to right: ?, Er...
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Wedding photo from the first half of the 1940s
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Wedding photo: György Kulcsár (1915) and Mária Sarolta Kulcsár (born: Szabó, 1923). György Kulcsár, originally from Nagymegyer, served as a Hungarian military officer on the Hungarian-Slovak (1939-1945) state border over the Vága. It was here that he met Mária Sarolta Szabó, his ...
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Wedding procession on the village's Main Street in the 1960s
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Wedding procession of newlyweds from Csölle on Fő utca. In those days, after the official swearing-in ceremony, the wedding procession went to the church for the church ceremony. ; The building behind the church, which no longer exists, housed a dry cleaner, a barber, and at one ...
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Amazing photo from 1956
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Vága, April 10, 1956; From left to right: Margit Szabó (Mrs. Zsigóné), Géza Szabó, Rozália Szabó (née Takács), Mária Szabó (bride), Ferenc Simkó (groom), István Szabó, Anna Szabó (Mrs. Forróné), Ferenc Szabó.
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