WILLY POGANY ART DIRECTOR IN 1930'S HOLLYWOOD

WILLY POGANY is a famous art director and artist of Hungarian origin.  I'm linking to the IMDB  movie/film database that has some information on him.


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SPRING ARRIVES

DNA STUDY - ANCESTRY FROM BUKOVINA ?!

"This is a Y-DNA project to investigate the genetic origins and family history of the people who lived in the five Hungarian villages of Bukovina (Andrásfalva, Hadikfalva, Istensegíts, Fogadjisten, and Józseffalva). The villages were founded in the 1780's by Hungarian-speaking settlers after Austria acquired Bukovina from the Ottoman Empire. The majority of the settlers were Roman Catholic Székely from Transylvania, especially from the counties of Csík and Háromszék. A smaller number were Calvinists, who settled mainly in Andrásfalva. Some have been traced back to Szatmár-Németi and Nagybanya, and others to Maros County. Over the years, some people of other ethnic groups were absorbed into the village populations (predominately ethnic Germans, but also a few Romanians, Gypsies, Ukrainians, Poles, and Ruthenes). Between 1905 and 1914, about 600 people from the five villages emigrated to Saskatchewan, where they homesteaded and founded the village of Arbury (Székelyföld) near Punnichy, northeast of Regina."


DNA is such a fascinating subject.  You might have this heritage and have settled outside this town in Canada...

Note August 2022  DNA STUDIES BEING WHAT THEY ARE, this information may have been updated quite a bit in the last decade.

MAGYAR-AMERICAN WILLY POGANY (1882-1955) ARTIST and ART DIRECTOR IN HOLLYWOOD

William Andrew ("Willy") Pogany  who was born Vilmos Andreas Pogány in Szeged, Hungary on August 1882, died in 1955 after an amazing career as an artist and illustrator.

The pictures are a teaser here.  They come from and are owned by the site I have linked to and I really truly want you to take a look at that site.  I understand that besides illustrating children's books and "how to" art books, Pogany was an art director in Hollywood for some time.

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
page 266

"Nor were the Jews of Hungary as unaware of the danger as Kasztner's enemies assert. Some were misled by soothing lies. Others did not want to know the truth. They believed, or tried to make themselves believe, that such horrors might happen elsewhere, but not in Hungary: the Hungarians would reward the Jews for their loyalty or realize that by harming the Jews they would be harming their own economy and culture. However, by the time of the German occupation the majority of Hungarian Jews had some idea of the massacres in the east, thanks to reports by refugees or Zionists activists.


"Even though as a young child I did not understand what people in Budapest were fretting, speculating, arguing and agonizing about, I could tell that it was a matter of life and death..."

MAGYAR POSTA

OLD HUNGARIAN DNA and HUNGARIAN HISTORY : ősmagyar dna-magyar őstörténelem

This YouTube presented video entitled : the old-hungarian dna and the hungarian history-ősmagyar dns-magyar őstörténelem and features music by singer Lorrena McKennit called "Night Ride Across the Caucasus."

GOOGLE PANORAMIO KEY TO PHOTOS OF HUNGARIAN TOWNS and VILLAGES

Recently I decided to click on a new feature of Google called Panoramio.  By putting the name of my ancestral villages and towns into the search, up came both satellite pictures of the places now (all those fields) as well as the map feature (the names of streets) with photographs of local sites such as churches and ruins, which gave me a better feel for those places.  This seems to be a contributory photography opportunity!