Bor/Novi Sad, 5 November - President of the Assembly of AP Vojvodina Bálint Juhász attended today in Bor the commemoration of 80th Anniversary of Miklós Radnóti’s death and laid the wreath on the monument dedicated to this prominent poet of the Hungarian and European literature.
Miklós Radnóti was one of the great poets of the Hungarian lyric poetry, who was brutally killed during the forced march from the camp in Bor, where he was captured in 1944. During his stay in Bor and the forced march, Radnóti wrote ten poems which were found after his exhumation from the mass grave in the village Abda in the northwest of Hungary, which were published under the title “Bor Notebook” and became one of the most poignant testimonies of the crimes of fascists during World War II.
The event, organised by the National council of the Hungarian national minority, took place near the monument and included an appropriate artistic programme and planting of the walnut tree in the vicinity of the former working camp in memory of the tragic death of this poet and the time he lived in. 
On behalf of the Hungarian national community, Balint Pastor and Arpad Fremond addressed the attendees and expressed gratitude to the City of Bor, which had been nurturing and preserving the memory of Miklós Radnoty for decades.
“The citizens of Bor have been talking about him for decades and refer to him as “our Miklós”. Today, the Serbian-Hungarian relations are at their historical maximum, and Radnoty is one of the first symbols of the understanding between two nations”, said Pastor and added that he was one of the greatest poets of not only Hungarian but European literature of the XX century.
“The fact that the “Bor Notebook” by Radnoty was translated by Danilo Kiš, and the foreword in the book was written by Aleksandar Tišma, speaks volumes about the great men among Serbs and Hungarians”, said Pastor.
The President of the National council of the Hungarian national minority Arpad Fremond recalled the tragic fate of the great poet and of thousands of other camp detainees who, after hard labour and torture in the camp near Bor, near the end of the World War II, lost their lives in the forced march towards Hungary.
The mayor of Bor Aleksandar Milekić sad that the citizens of Bor considered Radnoty to be their poet as well, and that 21 different national communities lived in this city, people of open hearts, who lived through the difficult joint history that they wrote about.
"Radnoty left us the "Bor Notebook" as a bequest so that we can remember him, read his poems, and think carefully about every verse he wrote during his hard life in the camp," said Milekić.