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 !
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
THE GABOR SISTERS - a fan site that links to articles and photos
This fan site is cool! THE GABOR FAMILY GOES TO HOLLYWOOD...
Now I'm wondering, as you probably are, how we know for sure what year they were born, since the sisters claimed to be younger than they were, and to blur birth dates so that they would keep getting younger...
One thing for sure, Zsa Zsa's 9th marriage is to a much younger man - the Prince!
Now I'm wondering, as you probably are, how we know for sure what year they were born, since the sisters claimed to be younger than they were, and to blur birth dates so that they would keep getting younger...
One thing for sure, Zsa Zsa's 9th marriage is to a much younger man - the Prince!
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
PRINCE FREDERIC (ZSA ZSA's HUSBAND) IS RUNNING FOR GOVERNER OF CALIFORNIA
Prince Frederic Von Anhalt, Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband for many years, has this web-site that promises to include pictures from his life - and Zsa Zsa's. The couple at this point are considered "eccentric," and I'm not sure how seriously he will run to replace the current Arnold Schwarsenegger... Click click on that link!
Monday, July 19, 2010
ZSA ZSA GABOR RECOUPING FROM EMERGENCY HIP SURGERY
Breaking Yahoo news here. Knew I'd have to talk about the Gabors at some point, Zsa Zsa in particular... The Gabors were and are one of a kind, courtesans with terrific sense of humor, fashion sense, and sense of humor.
Zsa Zsa is the only Gabor sister still alive, and the only Gabor to have a child, a daughter... Link now to the Yahoo news article and video about her... and oh,
THE HUNGARIAN-AMERICAN MAGYAR-AMERICAN COMMUNITY WISHES ZSA ZSA a PAINFREE and COMPLETE HEALING!
Zsa Zsa is the only Gabor sister still alive, and the only Gabor to have a child, a daughter... Link now to the Yahoo news article and video about her... and oh,
THE HUNGARIAN-AMERICAN MAGYAR-AMERICAN COMMUNITY WISHES ZSA ZSA a PAINFREE and COMPLETE HEALING!
Saturday, July 10, 2010
HUNGARY EXCHANGE - A NEW FABULOUS HUNGARIAN GENEALOGY SITE - LOOKS INVITING TO ME!
VERY EXCITING! NICK GOMBASH (and some of his friends) are behind this one... oh I wish I had thought of it first! ... here you can find some books on line that you have probably gone nuts looking for.... such as Heraldry Books in Hungarian!
Really, truly, you must check out this link NOW!
https://www.hungaryexchange.com/ UPDATED LINK JUNE 2018
Really, truly, you must check out this link NOW!
https://www.hungaryexchange.com/ UPDATED LINK JUNE 2018
May 2022 Not Sure if the site still exists or what's happening https://www.ongenealogy.com/listings/hungary-exchange/
Here is Nick's blogspot http://nickmgombash.blogspot.com/
Sunday, July 4, 2010
THE FOURTH OF JULY - MOST PATRIOTIC HOLIDAY IN THE UNITED STATES
I am proud to be an American, but like most 3rd or 4th generation Americans I still identify myself with the hyphen Hungarian-American. This is no worse than saying someone is African-American or "Scotts-Irish," or "Sicilian." I THINK WE WANT TO COMMUNICATE WHERE OUR PEOPLE CAME FROM to this nation of immigrants.
How many generations does it take to feel oneself to be "American" when to be American is usually to be a mutt? My "aunt" Hilda, here for fifty years and with excellent English but for the Accent used to say "and still a Greenhorn."
(I know of one person whose family seems to have remained "Irish" by only marrying other Irish for five generations!)
To communicate "I'm Hungarian," is to communicate that while there is pride in being an American, there is also no shame in being from this background!
How many generations does it take to feel oneself to be "American" when to be American is usually to be a mutt? My "aunt" Hilda, here for fifty years and with excellent English but for the Accent used to say "and still a Greenhorn."
(I know of one person whose family seems to have remained "Irish" by only marrying other Irish for five generations!)
To communicate "I'm Hungarian," is to communicate that while there is pride in being an American, there is also no shame in being from this background!
Sunday, June 27, 2010
ONE HUNGARIAN CATHOLIC PARISH REMAINS IN CLEVELAND...
Saint Margaret's and Saint Emeric's have closed in Cleveland. Here's an article about Saint Elizabeth's of Hungary... from Cleveland.com
"The old Hungarian neighborhood is so far gone as to be almost erased. Until you come upon St. Elizabeth of Hungary and walk into a church as big and as beautiful as the day it was consecrated in 1922."
"The old Hungarian neighborhood is so far gone as to be almost erased. Until you come upon St. Elizabeth of Hungary and walk into a church as big and as beautiful as the day it was consecrated in 1922."
Thursday, June 10, 2010
WHAT ARE THE STEREOTYPES OF HUNGARIANS?
WHAT ARE WE KNOWN FOR when someone doesn't want to get to know us better and resorts to the lazy act of stereotyping?
I know what I think about this. But what do YOU THINK?
(If you leave a comment, please leave an honest note about your ethnic heritage!)
Saturday, June 5, 2010
PLUMS in Hungarian is SZILVA
Every once in a while, usually at either a gourmet store or a dollar store I find fruit preserves imported from Hungary... Plum, Peach, Apricot, or Cherry.