József Berta

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József Berta (Veszprém, May 13, 1934 - Budapest, 2 January 1958) was a freedom fighter, a martyr of 1956.

He was born in Veszprém. He did not know his parents, and was raised as a child at shelter in János Körmendi room painter. After completing the eight general assignments, he became a trainee at the Veszprém Library and then completed an eight-month course. After that he was placed in an instructor position. In 1952, due to his illness, he left his job and worked as a coachman and then as a tractor driver. He married and had two children. In November 1954 he was invited to military service. During the Revolution, he served in Várpalota as a miners' soldier. On October 25, 1956, he left his party and joined the local revolutionary events. He participated in the demonstration, then in the attack of the party committee and the police, in disarming the latter. The insurgents built barriers and barricades and attacked a number of Soviet car crashes coming from Hajmáskér during the day. The cars were fired, thirteen of the Soviet soldiers lost their lives. After the fight, he returned to his barracks, where he demanded weapons and ammunition, and tried to persuade his officers to join the uprising. However, the barracks did not join the movement on the following day, nor issued a weapon, although the protesters demanded that they have launched several unsuccessful sieges. In one of his attacks, Berta fought against the gunmen in the Castle Palace. He became a member of the National Guard, he also participated in the search for hidden members of the ÁVH. He served as a national guard until November 21, 1956. At that time, they learned that the Soviet army was arrested by the people of the Revolution. They went back to the nearby woods, and were planning to continue fighting, but eventually the unit broke up, and several people fled abroad. Berta returned to his team from early December. Arrested on 14 February 1957. At first instance, on 2 November 1957, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for conducting an organization. This was adjudicated by Lieutenant-Colonel János Szimler, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Supreme Court's Military College, on 10 December 1957 to a death sentence. He was executed on 2 January 1958. After 1990, he was promoted to posthumous Honorary Major.