The tragedy of the Hungarians in the Délvidék region is one of Hungarian history's darkest chapters. Yet this well-nigh unfathomable genocide belongs to some of the least known events of the twentieth century.

There are no definitive figures available for the Hungarian victims of the massacres. Based on the OZNA's registration lists, the number of Hungarians executed without a trial in October and November 1944, far exceeds 5,000. This figure does not include the Hungarians sentenced to death by Yugoslav people's courts. Moreover, the mass murders lasted - albeit with decreasing intensity – until the spring of 1945, although the military administration ceased already in February.

According to Svetozar Kostić Capo, the then Vojvodina head of the OZNA, approximately 20,000 Hungarians were killed by members of the security agency. On the basis of additional recollections, eye-witness accounts and local documents, most Serbian Hungarian researchers estimate the number of Hungarian victims of the massacres as 15 - also 20,000.