Today is the Memorial Day of Hungarian Heroes. This day commemorates the nameless heroes, soldiers and civilians who, since St. Stephen, made sacrifices for the survival, independence and freedom of the homeland.
The memory of fallen Hungarian heroes was first enacted into law during the First World War, in 1917, at the initiative of Staff Major Ferenc Abele At that time, the National Committee for the Perpetuation of the Memory of Heroes was established, whose task was to manage the monument-erecting program of the settlements. One of the best-known works is the Heroes' Memorial Stone commemorating all the fallen soldiers of the First World War, which was inaugurated in 1929 in Budapest's Heroes' Square in front of the Millennium Monument.
The Heroes' Memorial Day was held in 1924 in the XIV. was recorded by an article of law, which stated that "every year the last Sunday of the month of May (...) the Hungarian nation always dedicates to the memory of the heroic dead" . Despite this, the holiday was not observed from 1945, during the communist period.
After the regime change, it was possible to celebrate the fallen Hungarian soldiers again, and then the LXIII. law officially expanded the scope of the former holiday to include everyone "who shed their blood, risked their lives or sacrificed themselves for Hungary."
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