Erdõsmecske / Erdosmecske, Hungary (Official)
Waldorf (German)
Ratzmetschke
Raizmetschge
Baranya County
Photos taken & contributed by Josef Dara, 09 Oct 2008 (click images to enlarge)
Taken/contributed by Josef Dara, 09 Oct 2008
This house was my mother’s uncle’s home which I stayed in several times in the 70’s.
Erdõsmecske
Taken/contributed by Josef Dara, 09 Oct 2008
My mother was born in 1924, in this house. After the families expulsion in 1945 it was taken over by Szekerly Hungarians for free. At some stage it was taken over by my mother’s cousin, now deceased. It is a little derelict but I hope to make an effort to purchase this property. Full circle so to speak.
Erdõsmecske
Taken/contributed by Josef Dara, 09 Oct 2008
Peppers hang to dry . . . paprika!
Erdõsmecske
Taken/contributed by Josef Dara, 09 Oct 2008
This woman informed me that her husband and my father were both enlisted into the Wehrmacht and posted to Riga in Estonia during WW2. I didn’t know that, seeing as my father was from Nagyganisza and I wasn’t even aware that he had even been to Erdosmecske at any time in his life. It seems that my fathers family undertook forcibly or otherwise the ‘Magyarisation’ program.
Last updated: 09/09/2026