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A Personal Collection of Hungarian Historical Militaria. - Egy Magyar Katona Történelmi Gyüjtemény

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Namn: Péter O.
Plats: Sweden

Im Péter, 35 year old living in Göteborg (Gothenburg) Sweden. By citizenship Im Swedish, but buy origin I'm Hungarian. Both my parent came here some 35 years ago and I was born here. My interest for history come early in life since the modern history involved my parents escape from the communist dictatorship in their native Hungary. My grandfather was a Ludovika military academy graduate and an officer in the Hungarian army during WW2. This came to affect his and his familys life after the war. I met him several times in the last years of his life and I had many opportunities to learn and gain interest in Hungarys military history. My collection of Hungarian militaria is a result of my inspiration to know more of my origins

den 16 augusti 2008

The cigarette case of Mr. Barna Béla

Here´s a somewhat unique cigarette case which belonged to a Mr. Béla Barna. He was working as the head adviser at the 6th districts’ police headquarters during 1920-1936. This cigarette case bears a symbol of the Horthy time’s police, a uniform helmet of a police officer. He retired in 1936 and lived in Budapest together with his wife. Some years after the war he was forced to break up this life with a few hours notice. Since he used to work for the old police he was seen of the communist state as a threat and had to leave the town and settle on a farm. He and his wife lived under very poor conditions the last years of their life, living next to a pigsty, mistreated and named as fascists and bourgeoisie by the locals on the farm. Not much is left of Mr. Barna´s things today, only memories... He died in 1953 and his wife, my great grandfather’s sister was allowed to move back to Budapest after 1956 were she died not long after.


Barna Béla rendörfötanácsos volt a Budapesti VI kerületben 1920-1936 között. Amikor a háború utáni időkben, már nyugdíjban vonulva ki lett feleségével együtt vidékre telepítve mert a volt rendszerben szolgált.
Három órát kapott arra hogy elhagyja a lakását, és akkor került dolgainak egy része nagyapámhoz. Felesége dédnagyapámnak a növére volt. Barna Béla 1953ban halt meg és felesége csak 1956 után hagyhatta el a vidéki száműzésüket és vissza költözhetett Budapestre.
A cigarettatartót valószínű hogy nyugdíjazáskor kaphatta meg a volt munkatársaitol.
Az felső oldalán egy Horthy korszaki rendőrsisak látható aranyból. A cigarettatartó hátoldalán meg a rendőrkapitányság tisztikarának a belevésett neveik láthatók.