Habura

The Habura settlement is located less than ten kilometers away from Medzilaborce, on the upper bank of the Čertižnianka River. It is situated at an altitude of 350-700 m above sea level. During WWI, the Austro-Hungarian army confiscated the wagons, horses, cattle, and food supplies of the local farmers. The inhabitants were exiled to Hungary, the men were drafted to the army. Then the soldiers set the village on fire. The front-lines ran through the Carpathians until May 1915. In 1935, the so-called Haburská-Čertižniansko rebellion took place in the area. Local youths attacked lobbying politicians of the Agrarian Party and the executor who was accompanying them. The Brawl was dispersed by mobilized policemen who brutally beat up the detainees. During WWII, the village and the surrounding area became a strategic foothold of the Wehrmacht that clashed with the advancing Red Army and the Czechoslovak foreign brigade in this area in the summer of 1944.