Tuesday, August 31, 2010
It sounds like Zsa Zsa isn't going to make it. THE RAG SHEET PHOTOS MAKE ME MAD
Right now, as I read reports that Zsa Zsa has had another relapse, and it sounds like her time may be near, I feel angry that someone - maybe a member of the hospital staff - has provided one of the newspapery gossip magazines with a picture of her laying back - the camera aimed at her nose - showing what she looks like without cosmetics or hair done. THIS IS INCONSIDERATE! Leave a person alone in the PRIVACY OF THEIR DEATH BED!
Monday, August 23, 2010
BOOK EXCERPT : REZSO KASZTNER by LADISLAUS LOB
REZSO KASZTNER
The Daring Rescue of Hungarian Jews" A Survivor's Account
by Ladislaus Lob C 2008
Pimlico is the Publisher
(The subject of this book Rezso Kasztner is a controversial figure of the Holocaust/ World War II. Some, including the author who provides his own testimony "I am alive today because of Rezso Kasztner", see him as a hero, someone who found a way to get some Hungarian Jews to Switzerland though this was through financial deals with Nazis. Others in Israel felt just the opposite, that he could have done more, and he was killed because of it.)
page 196-197
"...a miracle seemed to have happened. From the Red Cross in Geneva we received some 60 cases containing food, medicines, vitamins, and in particular 1,300 boxes of a product called "Starkosan." This was a chocolate powder with added vitamins and nutrients. I have never forgotten the please of stuffing myself with it..."
FROM HIS DIARY:
"For the first time in five months a cultured flavour: chocolate! Old people and children are truly becoming drunk on it; they are eating it with spoons, dry, on bread, with butter, with water, with jam, mixed with glucose, etc. There has been a change in people. Cheerful, calm faces, chattiness, an optimistic mood...."
The Daring Rescue of Hungarian Jews" A Survivor's Account
by Ladislaus Lob C 2008
Pimlico is the Publisher
(The subject of this book Rezso Kasztner is a controversial figure of the Holocaust/ World War II. Some, including the author who provides his own testimony "I am alive today because of Rezso Kasztner", see him as a hero, someone who found a way to get some Hungarian Jews to Switzerland though this was through financial deals with Nazis. Others in Israel felt just the opposite, that he could have done more, and he was killed because of it.)
page 196-197
"...a miracle seemed to have happened. From the Red Cross in Geneva we received some 60 cases containing food, medicines, vitamins, and in particular 1,300 boxes of a product called "Starkosan." This was a chocolate powder with added vitamins and nutrients. I have never forgotten the please of stuffing myself with it..."
FROM HIS DIARY:
"For the first time in five months a cultured flavour: chocolate! Old people and children are truly becoming drunk on it; they are eating it with spoons, dry, on bread, with butter, with water, with jam, mixed with glucose, etc. There has been a change in people. Cheerful, calm faces, chattiness, an optimistic mood...."
Thursday, August 19, 2010
ZSA ZSA HAS LAST RITES AND IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION - HER HUSBAND COLLAPSES
I'm paraphrasing here, all the news articles that have come out over the last couple days in Los Angeles. She's reported to be 93 and has had two blood clots removed after hip replacement surgery and is said to barely able to speak. We all have to go sometime, but of course we wish only for a peaceful time of it for Zsa Zsa.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
GENETIC MARKERS IN THE HUNGARIAN POPULATION - THEN AND NOW
Linking to this blog that has a page on the latest in GENETICS for the Hungarians...
"On the basis of their findings the Szeged researchers came to the conclusion that the number of invaders was most likely very small because even in these very early graves only 36% of the people had markers indicating Asiatic origin. Fifty percent of them were of purely European origin, and their DNA composition indicated that their ancestors had lived in Europe for at least 40-50,000 years. By now this Asiatic element has almost disappeared: 84% of Hungarians are totally of European origin and only 16% carry Asiatic markers."
The archaeologists also tested the DNA of the horses they found in burials....
"On the basis of their findings the Szeged researchers came to the conclusion that the number of invaders was most likely very small because even in these very early graves only 36% of the people had markers indicating Asiatic origin. Fifty percent of them were of purely European origin, and their DNA composition indicated that their ancestors had lived in Europe for at least 40-50,000 years. By now this Asiatic element has almost disappeared: 84% of Hungarians are totally of European origin and only 16% carry Asiatic markers."
The archaeologists also tested the DNA of the horses they found in burials....
Saturday, August 7, 2010
THE HUNGARIAN-AMERICAN COALITION - the oldest - and plenty of member links...
THE HUNGARIAN-AMERICAN COALITION is the oldest organization of its kind and there are plenty of members. Link now to their web page !
Thursday, August 5, 2010
HUNGARIAN HISTORY by KAROLY KOCSIS and ESZTER KOCSIS-HODOSI present HUNGARIAN MINORITIES IN THE CARPATHIAN BASIN
KAROLY KOCSIS and ESZTER KOCSIS-HODOSI present a very detailed history here divided into sections; Hungarian Minorities in the Carpathian Basin.
They ask that you respect their work and not reproduce it...
Click on the title to get to the link!
They ask that you respect their work and not reproduce it...
Click on the title to get to the link!
Sunday, August 1, 2010
MUSINGS - HOW HUNGARIAN AM I?
For a long time I didn't have any relationship to Hungary or Hungarianess, other than knowing that in the town I was growing up in we were thought of as "low class." This was based not on our character or personalities but because we were of Hungarian ancestry.
Since my ancestors came to the United States during the Industrial Revolution and assumed city work, I had no idea that they had been involved in agriculture and trade in the Old Country.
I never heard Hungarian spoken or learned any Hungarian; Latin, French, German, and Spanish were the languages taught in my high school. I also didn't grow up in an ethnic oriented church.
I had no idea that my Hungarian surname MEANT SOMETHING! It was difficult to spell and pronounce and a lot of people seemed to avoid attempting it. To this day the family does not pronounce the name one way or close to the Hungarian pronounciation.
Not until about 10 years ago when I began to research my family history and genealogy, did I learn the meaning of my surname, and Google translater sound options helped me "hear it right." Slowly I am beginning to understand how "Hungarian" I may be and through "nothing more" than a heritage !
Since my ancestors came to the United States during the Industrial Revolution and assumed city work, I had no idea that they had been involved in agriculture and trade in the Old Country.
I never heard Hungarian spoken or learned any Hungarian; Latin, French, German, and Spanish were the languages taught in my high school. I also didn't grow up in an ethnic oriented church.
I had no idea that my Hungarian surname MEANT SOMETHING! It was difficult to spell and pronounce and a lot of people seemed to avoid attempting it. To this day the family does not pronounce the name one way or close to the Hungarian pronounciation.
Not until about 10 years ago when I began to research my family history and genealogy, did I learn the meaning of my surname, and Google translater sound options helped me "hear it right." Slowly I am beginning to understand how "Hungarian" I may be and through "nothing more" than a heritage !