George Gömöri: In Memoriam Clara Györgyey
In memoriam: Clara Györgyey: Writer and translator who specialised in the theatre
Klara Takács, writer and translator: born Budapest 23 May 1933; married Ferenc Györgyey (two daughters); died Wallingford, Connecticut 11 January 2010.
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ORMBK 2009 Ádventi / Karácsonyi Összejövetel
Oregon Magyar Baráti Közösség 
2009 Karácsony
West Linn Lutheran Church
2009. december 19. (szombat)
20390 Willamette Drive, West Linn, Oregon
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Papp László: Megmentett értékek
Az amerikai magyar templomok sorsa és az azokban felhalmozott értékek elvesztéséről írott cikkem sokak lelkiismeretét megmozgatta, cselekvésre ösztönözte. Ami azután következett, iskolapéldája lehetne annak, hogy a magyarok nem csak acsarkodni tudnak, de össze is tudnak fogni egy nemes cél érdekében.
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Rainer Maria Rilke: Advent
Es treibt der Wind im Winterwalde
die Flockenherde wie ein Hirt
und manche Tanne ahnt wie balde
sie fromm und lichterheilig wird;
und lauscht hinaus. Den weißen Wegen
streckt sie die Zweige hin - bereit
und wehrt dem Wind und wächst entgegen
der einen Nacht der Herrlichkeit.
Havat terel a szél az erdőn,
mint pehely-nyájat pásztora.
S néhány fenyő már érzi sejtőn,
miként lesz áldott-fényű fa,
és hallgatózik. Szűz utakra
feszül sok ága, tűhegye-
szelet fog- készül, nő magasba,
az egyetlen szent éj fele.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Fordította Fodor András
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Miklós Cseszneky de Milvány: My Mediterranean
The Mediterranean - when I hear this name the first image that comes into my mind is the sea. My first encounter with the sea happened to be in the Mediterranean, on the Montenegrine coast. It was really an encounter in the broader sense of the word, not only a meeting, but also a duel. It was late night when after long hours of hitchhiking in the shadow of rattling guns and walking along untrodden paths in the Black Mountains at last I arrived at the coast. I was staggering in the darkness, hardly could see any stars in the overcast sky and public lighting also was switched off in fear of a possible missile raid. My flask was empty and I felt tortured by thirst. The camping, the address of which I had found in a ten-year-old travel book, still existed though, but the door was locked and the porter had gone. The tap was within arm’s reach yet it seemed unreachable.
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Frank Koszorus, Jr.: Trianon: A Continuing Tragedy
June 4, 2009
The punitive treaty of Trianon, which tore Hungary asunder in violation
of the vaunted principle of self-determination, is often thought of as
a tragic historical event that has little or no relevance today. For
some, Trianon is an emotionally laden event, while for others it is at
best, an uncomfortable reminder of a past injustice that needs to be
“gotten over.” Since the consequences of Trianon are still with us,
however, it cannot be ignored.
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Gregory Nehler: A Hungarian Community in Limbo
Preface to Gregory L. Nehler’s A Hungarian Community in Limbo
When I was Associate Instructor of Hungarian at Indiana University,
Bloomington between 1978 and 1981, I began a research project on the
bilingualism of Hungarians in South Bend, IN. I tape-recorded scores of
interviews in Hungarian and my friend, Greg Nehler, an IU student at
the time, conducted scores in English. This project resulted in several
published articles and one book that I wrote (Fejezetek a South Bend-i
magyar nyelvhasználatból, Budapest, 1990). What follows below is an
unpublished paper by Greg Nehler, the typescript of a talk prepared for
the Hungarian Cultural Association of Chicago in May 1981. This
typescript deserves more visibility than it has in my project files,
therefore I have asked Professor Louis Éltető of Portland, OR, the man
responsible for infusing Nehler with great eagerness to learn Hungarian
language and culture, to publish it on this homepage. I am publishing
this with Nehler’s permission.
Over the last three decades Nehler’s talk has gathered some historical
importance in as much as it is a record of a Hungarian community that
has since all but vanished. One of the many signs of vanishing is that
St. Stephen’s Catholic Church, built in 1909 and also mentioned by
Nehler, was demolished in 2004.
Budapest, 8 May 2009 Miklós Kontra
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Géza Jeszenszky: The Collapse of the Soviet Empire and Communism
The sudden death of an ideology and an empire
Entering 1989 the Soviet Union and its informal but very real empire was already facing serious economic difficulties and a lack of confidence about attaining the ambitious aims of its official philosophy, called Marxism-Leninism: the creation of a new socio-political order based on communal property and abundance. However, no politician or analyst foresaw that by the end of the year all the communist one-party states of Central and South-eastern Europe would renounce dictatorship and switch to political pluralism. In 1990 they all held free elections won by parties opposed to the communists, discarded even the vestiges of Soviet-type Socialism, and started restoring capitalism, i.e. the market economy, while proclaiming their aim to return to the basic values of the West and the institutions built upon them. On 1 July 1991 the Warsaw Pact, the political-military organization of the Soviet Empire was dissolved by common consent, approved by Gorbachev, the President of the Soviet Union. On 25 December the Soviet Union itself was officially dissolved and its member states became internationally recognized sovereign, independent countries, all professing a commitment to political pluralism and the market economy. Never in human history did an empire disappear so suddenly and without bloodshed, and no profound political, economic and social changes took place in such a short period over such a large territory.
The causes of the collapse of the communist system are complex, they can be listed under the following headings: inherent or systemic, fundamental or substantive, incidental and immediate.
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Peter Gosztonyi: Hungarian Army in WW II.- Excerpt
In a subchapter “The army in the Ukraine” Erich Kern, German officer writes about the Hungarian army’s participation in 1941 as follows:
“In recollecting the bravery of the Magyar soldiers, the Germans could
form opinion based on the military event that took place in early
August of 1941 south of Uman, in the district of Pervomaysk. A German
eyewitness wrote about it in his recollections of the war:
Note: Excerpt from pp. 55 - 56 of the book
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Csaba Lukács: Murder in Veszprém Part 2
We went and sat in the nearest tavern. A sign read “We serve only club members,” but we got tea with no trouble. Here, too, people were talking about yesterday’s murder, the barmaid cheerfully told them that traffic had been heavy that afternoon on account of the press. “I didn’t tell them anything”, she added, and we heard similar statements from many people in the course of the day. One couldn’t say that the air was charged with fear, but there was much revealed about the situation by the fact that no one was willing to state his name or to allow his picture to be taken.
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Csaba Lukács: Murder in Veszprém Part 1
The murder at Veszprém last Sunday [Febr. 8] at dawn threw back by decades the cause of fighting prejudice and of Roma-Hungarian coexistence. Yet, paradoxically, the death of hand-ball player Marian Cozma of Bucharest has done more to advance Romanian-Hungarian reconciliation than years of joint government meetings and diplomatic attempts. [Translator’s note: European handball, also known as Olympic handball, is a team sport played on a soccer field. Marian Cozma was a Romanian national, a professional player for the Veszprém team in Hungary.] The repercussions of the tragic event may fundamentally reshape people’s thinking in both countries.
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Pediatrician Wanted
The Rózsakert [Rose Garden] Medical Center, Budapest, is looking for a pediatrician for either full or part time employment. Ideally the applicant should be young, flexible, have had an American residence and hold a licence to practice in Hungary, but we will talk with anyone.
The RMC currently has 54 physicians in 28 specialties and is proud of its brand new, 600 square meter (6500 sq ft) facilities. It is very nice and unique (especially given the pitiful Hungarian health sysyem). Half our clients are foreigners (diplomats, executives, missionaries, teaching staff of international schools, etc.) and do not speak Hungarian.
Our web page: www.medical-center.hu
I can be reached at: jokay@medical-center.hu, or at
kjokay@internet.hu
Kinga Jokay, MBK
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Hungarian Revolt Contributed to Oregon Culture
The Oregonian, Sunday November 2, 1986
The cream of Hungary’s population fled their homeland 30 years ago this month as the Soviet army crushed a 14-day rebellion against Moscow’s domination of a once independent nation.
An estimated 200,000 Hungarians turned their backs on their homes, jobs, treasured heirlooms and ― in some cases ― families, to seek freedom and opportunity in the non-communist world. Approximately 38,000 of the self-exiled Hungarians were welcomed to the United States in the months after the 1956 revolt.
Inspired by the heroism of the Hungarians who, against overwhelming odds, had risen up to fight Soviet tanks with gasoline-filled bottles, American church groups and individuals volunteered as sponsors to help the refugees settle in a new homeland.
Among those groups was the Oregon Committee for Hungarian Refugees. During its three months of existence, the Oregon committee worked with charitable agencies to bring 220 refugees to Oregon and provide them with transportation, temporary housing, orientation, job placement and permanent sponsors. More than 2,000 contributors donated money for the committee’s work.
Note: In 1986 on the the 30th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution The Oregonian interviewed Ede Hamar. The article is reprinted here as it is currently not online and is only available via microfilm.
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In Memoriam:: Ede “Eddie” Hamar
IN MEMORIAM
Ede “Eddie” Hamar
(August 7, 1936 – December 11, 2008)
Ede Hamar 72, died Dec.11, 2008 in a local care home in The Dalles,
Oregon. He was a longtime resident of Scholls, Oregon before moving to
The Dalles in September of 2008. Ede was born in Presburg,
Czechoslovakia on Aug.7, 1936, shortly after he was born he and his
family were forcefully expelled from Czechoslovakia whereupon they
eventually moved to Budapest, Hungary.
In 1956 when Ede was in his 2nd year of college in Budapest, Hungary; he and other students held a peaceful demonstration to try and end the communist take over that was happening in his country. This was the beginning of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 lasting from October 23rd until November 10th. On Nov 5, the day after the Soviet tanks rolled back into Budapest, Ede was among several young people in a building that was fired upon by tanks, he was injured and lost his right hand and was blinded by the explosion. A German magazine published a photo of him on top a Soviet tank holding a Hungarian flag; he then became wanted by the Soviets.
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Éva Saáry: October 23
On an anniversary...
(Lugano, 1966)
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Letter to Slovak Foreign Minister
THE AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FEDERATION
809 National Press Building
Washington, D.C. 20045
November 21, 2008
His Excellency Jan Kubis Via Facsimile
Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the Slovak Republic
Dear Mr. Minister:
The American Hungarian Federation, founded in 1906, supports democracy, the respect for the rule of law and minority rights in Central and Eastern Europe. We congratulate you for working with the Victims of Communism Foundation in Washington, D.C. to preserve the history of a scourge of the 20th century – Communism.
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Rev. Marilyn Sewell: Do Unitarian/Universalists have a Theology?
CALL TO WORSHIP
Good morning, and welcome!
We come to this sanctuary today
To give thanks,
To make confession,
To offer forgiveness—
Three unseen guests attend us here:
Faith, hope, and love:
Let all our hearts prepare them room.
Come, let us worship together!
Note: Rev. Sewell is resident minister of the First Unitarian Church in Portland, Oregon.
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ORMBK 2008 Ádventi / Karácsonyi Összejövetel
Oregon Magyar Baráti Közösség 
2008 Karácsony
West Linn Lutheran Church
Saturday December 6, 2008
20390 Willamette Drive, West Linn, Oregon
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Gyula Sipos: ...Of a Russian Soldier
His mother. like my mother...
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Ferenc Fáy: The October Dead
In memory of the 1956 Hungarian Freedom Fighter
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Laszlo G. Fulop: Vacation in 1945
"...One day father told us that one of our frequent visitors, the young lieutenant Mishka was going to Vienna by truck. It occurred to them that some people might want to travel along..."
Part One: Stunning Adventure On the Mountain
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Klári Bartal: On the fifth anniversary
“I’m afraid” you whispered in resistance,
your soul fading in the ambulance…
Perhaps, by misguided turn of mercy,
I was sent out of the emergency.
Then I was standing by your sickbed
and held your hand. Blanket you needed
for your cooling body. Do you hear
my voice, I asked, for I could not glean
where you’d be taken… and where to bring
blankets and pillows for your caring?
Internal medicine ward again?
We were there not long ago - in vain.
They sent me home – I was in a bind
Reluctant, yet I left you behind…
Today your memory would mar less
had I chosen to utter words of caress;
gave you a fleeting kiss – now it hurts
for – perhaps - you craved for my words…
Now my self-deceit is a constant curse.
I should have talked to mother, even burst:
“What d’you fear? Your faith becomes pity?
Are you afraid to cross to eternity?
Dad’s waiting for you on the other shore,
He will embrace you, and as before -,
love abounds – take you by the hand
and lead you into time without end.”
(Translated by Laszlo G. Fulop)
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Laszlo G Fulop: The Winter Vasil
...he talked about his war experiences mostly with father when he lingered around after dinner. Once – as he got more comfortable with us - he showed his battle wounds..."<P/>
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Augusztus 20
Az 1933-as gödöllöi jamboree idején a Magyar Cserkészszövetség Magyar Szolidaritás Napot rendezett. Az elöre megbeszélt napon cserkészeink tábortüzeket gyújtottak egész Magyarországon és az elcsatolt területeken. A megbeszélt idöben lobbantak fel a szolidaritás lángjai Gödöllőn, a Hargitán, a Tátrában, a Mecsekben, Szabadkán, a Bakonyban. Mindenfelé, ahol magyar cserkészek voltak.
2003 augusztusában, a Külföldi Magyar Cserkészszövetség felújitotta e fontos kezdeményezést. Ennek nyomán otthon, a Kárpátmedencében, Kazahsztántól Honoluluig, Svédországtól Rio de Janeiróig, a föld minden magyarok által lakott részein fellángoltak a tábortüzek, vagy gyertyácskák lángjai.
Ma már az évi munkatervünk állandó része a Magyar Szolidaritás Tüze. Kérjük csapatainkat, barátainkat, hogy ezt figyelembevéve, valósitsák meg e tervet.
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