Bones Uncovered at Underground Station

A video recording sent to the paper by Peter Fischl, a Hungarian-American Holocaust survivor, shows an interview with a security guard who used to work at the construction site for the Rákóczi Square underground station. The guard claims to have seen seven skeletons with skulls excavated at the site. The bones remained in a pile until a truck came and took them away, he said.

 

Fischl, who, together with his sister, witnessed the murder of a Jewish woman at the site when he was a child, is concerned the bones were not shown the respect they deserved.

 

Rákóczi Square was used as a temporary burial ground both at the end of WWII and during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

 

Building company Swietelsky, the general contractor for the underground station, confirmed for Népszava that bones were found at the site, but these were probably animal bones. The company denied allegations it had removed the bones without having them examined.

 

The bones were dumped at a site in Nagytétény, on the outskirts of Budapest, Népszava wrote.