Father Kun and the Terror on Városmajor Street
One of the bloodiest atrocities occurred on January 12, 1945, at the Maros Street hospital of the Buda Chevra Kadisa. A militia led by the defrocked monk András Kun (Father Kun) stormed the institution and executed 84–94 people in the courtyard. The victims included nearly the entire medical staff and all patients capable of walking.
Two days later the unit raided the Dániel Bíró Hospital on Városmajor Street. Approximately 150 people were murdered here; immobile patients were shot in their beds or killed with grenades thrown into the wards, while others were executed in front of the building. The perpetrators’ goal was the total liquidation of the Jewish population and the looting of their property in the final hours before the arrival of the Red Army.
“In the name of Christ, fire!”
András Kun (Father Kun)
Arrow Cross commander, giving the execution order during the Maros Street massacre