On April 6, 1948, a significant portion of the population of the village of Ecseny in Somogy County, Hungary, was expelled from their homeland. This was the result of Protocol XIII of the Potsdam Declaration of 1945 calling for "the orderly and humane transfer of German populations now living in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary."

The families involved were descendants of German settlers who began to arrive in what would become the village of Ecseny as early as 1754. They formed an Evangelical Lutheran congregation at the outset that would survive as an underground movement until the...

On April 6, 1948, a significant portion of the population of the village of Ecseny in Somogy County, Hungary, was expelled from their homeland. This was the result of Protocol XIII of the Potsdam Declaration of 1945 calling for "the orderly and humane transfer of German populations now living in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary."

The families involved were descendants of German settlers who began to arrive in what would become the village of Ecseny as early as 1754. They formed an Evangelical Lutheran congregation at the outset that would survive as an underground movement until the...

On April 6, 1948, a significant portion of the population of the village of Ecseny in Somogy County, Hungary, was expelled from their homeland. This was the result of Protocol XIII of the Potsdam Declaration of 1945 calling for "the orderly and humane transfer of German populations now living in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary."

The families involved were descendants of German settlers who began to arrive in what would become the village of Ecseny as early as 1754. They formed an Evangelical Lutheran congregation at the outset that would survive as an underground movement until the...

On April 6, 1948, a significant portion of the population of the village of Ecseny in Somogy County, Hungary, was expelled from their homeland. This was the result of Protocol XIII of the Potsdam Declaration of 1945 calling for "the orderly and humane transfer of German populations now living in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary."

The families involved were descendants of German settlers who began to arrive in what would become the village of Ecseny as early as 1754. They formed an Evangelical Lutheran congregation at the outset that would survive as an underground movement until the...