Plaque of Esterházy János
Plaque of Esterházy János
Historical Hungarian county:
Pozsony
GPS coordinates:
47.994589, 17.616909
History
It was unveiled in 2011 in memory of the Hungarian martyr politician, who died in a Czechoslovak prison for standing out against the cruelties committed against the Hungarians after 1945.
Count Esterházy János (1901-1957) was a Hungarian Christian martyr politician, who fought for the rights of the oppressed Hungarians in Czechoslovakia, where they were held under constant pressure of assimilation. He fought for the rightful revision of the Trianon Dictate, which forced almost 1 million Hungarians to live under Czechoslovak rule in their own homeland. After the First Vienna Award in 1938, he stayed in the newly created Slovakia to fight for the Hungarians still living under foreign rule. He became the only Hungarian member of the Slovak Parliament and he alone voted against the expulsion of the Jews in 1942. He helped hundreds of Jews, Czechs, Slovaks and Poles escape from the fascists, for which he was interned. After the Soviet invasion the Soviets also interned him, but he was soon released. He negotiated with Gustav Husak, the representative of the Slovak government, and spoke against the persecution of the Hungarians. But Husák handed him over to the Soviet secret agency and afterwards he was sentenced to 10 years of forced labor based on forged accusations and was sent to the Gulag. In the meantime in 1947 the Slovak National Court sentenced him to death for cooperating (!) with the fascists. The Soviets gave him out to the Czechoslovak authorities in 1949. The presidential "pardon" changed his sentence to life imprisonment. He was dragged from prison to prison throughout Czechoslovakia until he died in 1957 in the prison of Mírov in Moravia. Not even his body was given out to his family. Esterházy János was reburied in 2017 in Alsóbodok (Dolné Obdokovce) in the Chapel of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross built for this purpose.
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