Let the martyrdom of the 13 Arad martyrs remind us that freedom, equality and the endless range of opportunities taken for granted today were not always self-evident.
Our heroes fought and made great sacrifices to establish the right to freedom of action for future generations. It is our duty to take care and protect our acquired values - said Csaba Dióssi, mayor of Dunakeszi, this morning at the city commemoration held at the József Attila Cultural Center
The huge theater hall was filled with students from schools in Dunakesz and teachers who commemorated with them.
The Bárdos Lajos Primary School and the IV. Students of Béla Király High School.
It was heart-wrenching to hear when the teenagers recited one by one the last message of the thirteen martyrs under the bito tree, who lit the candle that will forever light in our souls in his memory.
The dignified and high-quality commemoration was rounded off by the joint singing of the National Anthem and the Speech.
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The martyrs of Arad were executed on October 6, 1849, after the fall of the War of Independence, on the first anniversary of the Vienna Revolution and the assassination of the Imperial Minister of War Theodor Baillet von Latour. Although the number of military officers executed on Arad was sixteen, the national memory still primarily counts the thirteen officers executed on this day:
The day of the death of Aristizd Dessewffy, Ernő Kiss, József Schweidel, Ernő Pöltenberg, Ignác Török, György Láhner, Károly Knézićh, József Nagysándor, Károly Leiningen-Westerburg, Lajos Aulich, János Damjanich, Károly Vécsey and Colonel Vilmos Lázár, as well as Prime Minister Lajos Batthyány became a symbol of revolution and the defeat of the freedom struggle.
