https://memoryproject.online/about-us/ testimonials, documentaries...
This is a good project and an opportunity for those who are now Americans because they or their families fled Hungary due to the 1956 crisis or who were displaced during World War II to record their story...
Do you know someone who should be sharing their story for the sake of history?
NORTH CAROLINA - HUNGARIAN AMERICAN CLUB OF THE TRIANGLE
Welcome to MAGYAR-AMERICAN BLOGSPOT North Carolina!
This is a group interested in connection, including business networking. There is a school in Durham that is focused on educating children of Hungarian heritage that meets twice a month at the clubhouse and has activities such as hiking.
If you're Hungarian or Hungarian-American in North Carolina and feeling a little isolated this may be a group you want to join!
HUNGARIAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION - SEATTLE WASHINGTON STATE
This group is active with scouting and education of children. They built a scout hut. You can learn Hungarian dances or check on what's new when it comes to Visas or Immigration.
Lots and lots of activity at this Club for Hungarian-Americans and Hungarians in America.
About that book: The colorful stories hidden behind historical facts and old photographs will conjure up a world in which our predecessors will once again come alive. Our grandparents and parents fought for their existence during their lifetimes and the messages their lives convey will make it easier to undersatnd our own life today. We just have to listen....
Over 1000 years?
I recently met a neighbor whose parents are in their 70's and going to Hungary to travel. The neighbor expressed to me that Orban's government really is fascist and that Orban and Putin are buddies and that the people of Hungary are increasingly "brainwashed" that what's happening in the Ukraine in the war that Russia started is "all the Ukrainian's fault." Further the neighbor stated that the people they know in Hungary who were all 'liberal media' have lost their jobs.
The neighbor and her parents have been warned to keep their mouths shut and get along while they travel for a month in the country. I'm sure they are mostly seeing relatives. The parents come from a family that went through World War II in that country and stories of horror are embedded in the family consciousness.
I don't see how this jives with the fact that so many Ukrainian refugees have fled the country to Poland and to Hungary (and to Canada, and the U.S.) and more per capita have been taken in by Hungarians. There is a border shared and there have long been routes into the country from Ukraine and Poland, as we know from military history. But back then the weaponry wasn't as it is today, with satellites, drones, various air vehicles, and the enormous and devastating bombs. The threat that Russia will keep on going, even if it ends up being a country in which there are few men to marry, is real.
I worry that the attitude that the brutalization of civilians blamed on "All Ukrainian's fault" is just like telling a woman whose husband beats her, that it is all her fault. If this is true, then there is also a tolerance to the violation of other's people's property, bodies, families - all of it CAN be "deserved." Bullies and Power-Over win.
I thought we ALL knew better.
As a Hungarian-American I'm most certainly living here, and have an American attitude, but one of the reasons I blog at MAGYAR AMERICAN is that I want to uphold the pride of people of Hungarian heritage and culture. I cannot be a "Hungarian Nationalist" but I can see that value. Hungary is landlocked and two thirds smaller than it was at one time and I have reasoned that Orban has been faced with the challenges that come from the country being destroyed in the past by Moslem Turks/Ottomon Empire, and other, various invasions, including the Nazi's. He has to redefine what it means to be Hungarian, and surely that is not a lackey of Russian or the Soviet Union.
The other aspect of a Hungarian thinking "It's not so bad." or "It will all work out," optimistically or hopefully or prayerfully, is that maybe they do know it is bad, that it's a treading water experience. I do believe that Putin's goal is to revive The Soviet Union" perhaps as his last great feat before he himself passes into the next world. But at what cost to the Russian people, even the Russian army, with so much loss?
Do not be deceived. It is hell on earth over there in Ukraine. One may get on with their lives numb from or unable to tolerate more bad, real news, but think again because thousands have had their lives destroyed when not even a year ago they were like you and me, just going about their business, perhaps not at all interested in politics, and also believing the world was moving to be a better place.
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HUNGARY TODAY : HUMAN RIGHTS IN HUNGARY - PRESIDENT JOSEPH BIDEN
Click on the link in the article to the full report from the United States State Department.
EMBASSY OF HUNGARY in WASHINGTON DC - NEW PRESIDENT OF HUNGARY KATALIN NOVAK
Excerpt:
Katalin Novák, the first female President of Hungary was inaugurated today in Budapest. Mrs. Novák emphasized that Hungary condemns Putin’s aggression, the armed invasion of a sovereign state. She also highlighted that Hungary wants peace and the country has taken in more than 700,000 Ukrainian refugees since February. After the outbreak of the war, Hungary launched the biggest humanitarian aid operation in its history
HUNGARY TODAY NEWSPAPER ENGLISH VERSION
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