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Recsk forced labor camp

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Recsk forced labor camp was a forced labor camp in the communiste era [1] in Hungary operated by the State Defense Authority (ÁVH)[2] between October 1950 and the fall of 1953, near the quarry of the Csákány-kő mountain, which rises near the village of Recsk in Heves county. It is the most infamous of the approximately 100 internment and labor camps of various sizes in Hungary. The "Hungarian Gulag"[3].


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