After the war, Jozef Cíger Hronský fled to Argentina
Jozef Cíger Hronský’s niece still lives in Brezno, until recently she managed the copyright of the famous writer.
Copyright on the works of Jozef Cíger Hronský was managed for many years by his niece, Mária Macuľová (81). Jozef Mak, who was directed with his team by director Peter Bebjak, was the first project ever when Hronsky’s relatives were already dealing with contracts abroad. After the Second World War, the writer, as a friend of some political leaders, fled with his family through Austria and Italy to Argentina. “My uncle died there quite early, when he was sixty-four years old, ten years after him, in 1970, his son Jurko also passed away. We often wrote to each other, but only from the sixties, when socialism came with Dubček’s human face. we didn’t contact us so it wouldn’t hurt us. “ claims his niece, Mrs. Maculova, who lives in Brezno.
Intact in the chest
She was also in frequent contact with Juraj’s wife Cecilia. “She was originally from Slovenia, but her uncle took great care to learn Slovak. He did it too. She had a beautiful voice, so he taught her our songs. He told her that once she came to Slovakia and this sang, everyone would love her right away. Cilka and I really had a great time. She greatly appreciated that her copyright had been cut off because they did not live in large numbers in South America. She always came when she got some money, especially from the sale of fairy tales. They still sell the best, “ good old lady.
Jozef Cíger Hronský’s bride left for one world at the age of ninety. After the Gentle Revolution, she also managed to visit Slovakia. They first met Maria in 1993, when the remains of her mother-in-law were placed in the grave at Martin’s Cemetery. “My cousin Matej Cíger was waiting for her at the airport and brought her to our cottage in Tále.
The Hronsk family was originally buried in Argentina, in a cemetery that the writer designed. There are not only traditional graves, but also walls into which coffins are inserted. The Hronskýs were also placed here. When they were selected years later, one side of Jozef Cíger’s coffin had a slightly rusty corner. “It simply came to our notice then. Therefore, before transport in Slovakia, they translated it into another. The bride told me that when they opened the coffin, everyone remained in no surprise. Even after more than thirty years, he looked as if he was just asleep, “Mrs. Macuľová further told us.
Many years ago, she was also seen in person at the cemetery. “He designed it beautifully. The center of the cemetery is around the sidewalk of an alley of trees, which ends at the statue of Christ with arms outstretched. He also designed a building where funerals were held,He continues. There are many more projects left in Argentina. “For example, I was very interested in the chapel in the factory, which my uncle had designed by his employer for his family of seven. There is also a beautiful sports complex that serves to this day,“Reveals.
The last moments of his life
According to Mrs. Maria, the famous relative, who painted a lot in Argentina, and his wife Valerie were cared for by the bride Cecilia. “The last time I gave him dinner, I asked for a sip of water. She handed it to him in a purple goblet, and then he met his student, artist Juan Horacio Scarnat, in the next room. But soon he dropped out with a brush in his hand and he could no longer be helped. He left, like his father, for a stroke. It was very difficult for his wife, Aunt Valika, in particular. She only survived him for a month and ten days when she was found dead one morning. “ we learn not very well known facts.
According to netera, the couple lived in Argentina in great modesty and made everything subject to having money at least for medicines. Mary had the opportunity to see the house in which they lived and acted with their own eyes. She arrived in the Argentine city of Luján in 2003 with her daughter Dana. “They lived about sixty kilometers from Buenos Aires. The house had two apartments. In one they lived and in the other a son Juraj with his wife Cilka and their daughter Adrianka. The whole estate was taken care of by Jožka. She also had a glass from which she drank the last time, but I was most interested in the image of the face of Christ, which was his final work at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. “ At that time, they loaded the most important things into three suitcases and transported him to his former house in Martin, where they set up a permanent exhibition for him. There is also his famous leather bag with a handful of earth from his parents’ grave and a piece of his mother’s torn rosary. “He carried it with him all the time for the rest of his life,” claims his niece.
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Jozef Cíger Hronský’s only granddaughter also died of a stroke. She was left with two children – her daughter Valéria still lives in the Argentine house of the Hronskýs, and her son Mauro has moved to Ecuador. The writer’s controversial past is said to be unresolved by his relatives. As is well known, Hronský commented on the creation of the Slovak state under Hitler’s supervision of Jozef Cíger as the highest political success of the Slovak nation, and in this spirit he also spoke at official events. In 1943, he was responsible for the establishment of the Neografia printing house, but contemporary materials say that it was originally a family business of the Jew Oskar Horský, which the Slovak publisher acquired in the Aryanization. When he was looking for an employee in Matica slovenská in 1944, he set Aryan origin as a condition. However, he was not a war criminal.
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How to support the regime He was arrested on September 1, 1944, but released the next day. Two months later, he was sitting on the board of the Matica slovenská again. He emigrated in January 1945 before fear of Czechoslovak courts. In Rome, after two weeks in prison, he managed to board a ship that made him to a new home – Argentina. He also supported his love for his native country there as the chairman of the Slovak National Council abroad and as the editor of the magazine Slovák abroad. “I have always considered him an honest and kind person. So far, I’ve been looking for every dirt, I’m sick of it. Slovakia was dear to him, he left him involuntarily. But he had to. After all, those lawsuits have all been manipulated with predetermined judgments. “ evaluates the former history with her view of Mrs. Maculova.