Penal Labour Camp Monument

Recsk forced labor camp was a forced labor camp in the communist era in operated by the State Protection Authority between October 1950 and the fall of 1953, near the quarry of the Csákány-kő hill, next to the village of in .
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Photo: Both Előd, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Memorial
  • Description: concentration camp
  • Also known as: “Recsk Concentration Camp”, “Recsk forced labor camp”, “Recsk National Memorial Park”, and “Recski kényszermunkatábor emlékműve”
  • Inscription: “Ezen a területen volt az 1950-53 években a hírhedt ÁVH-s KÉNYSZERMUNKA-HALÁLTÁBOR. Az alább felsorolt elhunytak vagy eltűntek nevei és a RECSKI SZÖVETSÉG által ismert túlélők részleges névsora legyen tanúságtétel az utókor, a történelmi emlékezés számára”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Recsk-Parádfürdő railway station and Parádfürdő State Hospital.

Railway station
Photo: IJoe, Public domain.
is situated 3 km north of Penal Labour Camp Monument.

Hospital
Photo: HírvivőKata, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated 3½ km northwest of Penal Labour Camp Monument.

Waterfall
Photo: Zugló Sipos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is situated 3½ km southwest of Penal Labour Camp Monument.

Penal Labour Camp Monument

Latitude
47.90535° or 47° 54′ 19″ north
Longitude
20.09361° or 20° 5′ 37″ east
Inception
October 25th, 1991
Open location code
8GV2W34V+4C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5626698105
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Wiki­data ID
Q162042
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Serbo-Croatian—“Penal Labour Camp Monument” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Camp de treball de Recsk”
  • Croatian: “Radni logor Rečka”
  • German: “Arbeitslager Recsk”
  • German: “Konzentrationslager Gedenkstätte”
  • Hungarian: “recski kényszermunkatábor”
  • Hungarian: “Recski kényszermunkatábor”
  • Polish: “Obóz koncentracyjny w Recsk”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Koncentracijski logor Rečka”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Radni logor Rečka”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Communist Penal Labour Camp, Recsk and ‘A’ tetemgödör.

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