Reburial of writer Nyiro Jozsef in Romania, cancelled
Romanian Foreign Ministry motivates that the political activity of Hungarian writer Nyiro Jozsef in the period 1941-1945 indicates an attitude of extreme-right, anti-Semitic and collaboration with the fascists.
Articol de Florin Matei, 28 Mai 2012, 08:53
Reburial of Hungarian writer’s remains from Transylvanian, Nyiro Jozsef, scheduled to take place today at Székelyudvarhely was cancelled.
The ceremony of remembrance will still take place, though, said an adviser of the Hungarian Civic Party leader, Szasz Jeno.
According to Radio Romania Actualități correspondent, Angela Bârsan, the event was supposed to be held under the high patronage of the President of Hungary parliament, Laszlo Kover.
Romanian Foreign Ministry has expressed his disagreement with the writer Nyiro Jozsef’s reburial in Romania, because his political activity in the period 1941-1945 indicates an attitude of extreme-right, anti-Semitic and collaboration with the fascist regime.
According to the Romanian Foreign Ministry, Nyiro Jozsef was born in 1889, at Jimbor, Brașov County and died in 1953 in Madrid, Spain, where he was buried until recently.
In the interwar period he worked as a journalist for several Hungarian publications in Transylvania and has published several novels.
In 1941, after the annexation of Northern Transylvania by Hungary, he was invited as a member of Transylvania in Parliament of Budapest and moved to the Hungarian capital.
He was the editor of two newspapers of the extreme right ("Magyar Ero" and "Magyar Ünnep").
After the coup of October 15, 1944 he continued to work in the Hungarian Parliament (Parliament of Sopron), which adopted anti-Semitic legislation.
In this capacity, Nyiro Jozsef supported the activity of Ferenc Szalasi's fascist government. In 1940 he was awarded the distinction "Crown Corvin", established by Miklos Horthy.
Translated by Alexandra-Diana Mircea
MTTLC, Bucharest University
