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Biography Context – Wartime Service and POW Experience
Endre Kovács, a dedicated Hungarian Ragged Guard officer during the late 1930s and World War II, played a key role in defending Hungarian interests in Transcarpathia and later during the Siege of Budapest. Captured by Soviet forces near the end of the siege, he was interned at Camp No. 95 (Usman) in the Voronezh region, as confirmed by his registration card in the Hungarian National Archives’ “Szovjet táborok magyar foglyai” database. This primary source provides official documentation of his captivity within the Soviet POW system.

After returning to Hungary following the war, Kovács was subjected to a mock trial by the Hungarian Soviet authorities and executed in 1949. The combination of his Ragged Guard service, wartime actions, and documented POW experience illustrates both his dedication as a soldier and the hardships he endured under Soviet captivity and post-war political repression.

Jeltelenül – Kovács Endre

  • URL: https://jeltelenul.hu/kovacs-endre Jeltelenül

  • Description / Context: This is a detailed biographical entry on Jeltelenül (“Unmarked / Without a Name”) about Endre Kovács. It gives his birth (Szolnok, 3 June 1901), his activities in the Ragged Guards, arrest in 1948, the charges against him (including war crimes), his trial, and execution in 1949. Jeltelenül

Kitörés 1945 – Kovács Endre főhadnagy

  • URL: https://kitores45.hu/katonahoseink/kovacs-endre-fohadnagy/ Kitörés 1945

  • Description / Context: This is a profile from the Kitörés 1945 (“Breakout 1945”) site, which highlights Endre Kovács’s wartime service, his capture in Usman (Camp No. 95), his imprisonment, brutal interrogation, and eventual execution. Kitörés 1945

  • English section: The page also has an English version that describes his Ragged Guard missions, his return from the Soviet POW camp in 1947 weighing only 45 kg, and the persecution that followed.

Primary Source Reference:

MNL POW Database – Endre Kovács

 Postwar criminal proceeding documenting the prosecutions of former members and associates of the Rongyos Gárda (Ragged Guards). Jeltelenül. Jeltelenül elföldelve. (n.d.). Draskóczi László és társai bűnügye. Retrieved [date you accessed], from Jeltelenül elföldelve website. Archival references: HU ÁBTL 3.1.9. V-151578; HU BFL – XXV.1.a.4 – 2633 – 1948.

Persons who lost their lives during political reprisals (1945-1967)
https://jeltelenul.hu/kovacs-endre

  1. ÁBTL – 2.2.1. I/3. 8/1033.
  2. ÁBTL – 3.1.9. V-151578
  3. ÁBTL – 4.1. A-653/3. (page 270)
  4. ÁBTL. – 4.1. – A – 881. “Materials of ragamuffins, free troops, detachments”,
  5. ÁBTL. – 3.1.5. – O – 14850. “Ragged Guard”,

The Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security (hereafter: Historical Archives or ÁBTL) preserves and manages the records of the former state security services and oversees the management of the records of the present-day secret services.

HM Institute and Museum of Military History Case File: HHI/276-2/2024.

Attached documents: EPA02705_bortonugyi_szemle_2000_1_123-127_240226_011207 and EPA02705_bortonugyi_szemle_2000_1_123-127_240226_011207 ENGLISH

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Prisoner of War Records

https://adatbazisokonline.mnl.gov.hu/adatbazis/szovjet-taborok-magyar-foglyai/adatlap/4A872975363C4A8BBC0E12F43A42BD07?search=Kov%C3%A1cs%20endre%20szolnok&term=eyJxIjoiS292XHUwMGUxY3MgZW5kcmUgc3pvbG5vayIsImZxIjp7ImRiX2lkIjp7IjUzYzNiY2U2NmU0M2JlNGYyMDk1NTY1MThjMmZjYjU0IjoiMjkzIn19LCJzb3J0Ijoic2NvcmUiLCJhcSI6IiIsImFxVHlwZSI6IiJ9&curr=1

Labor Camps in Ukrains in Hugarrian

http://www.hadifogoly.hu/