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koorimeyu · 5 years ago
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Ungherese nostalgia 💕 #ungheria #goulash #hungarianfood #hungariangoulash #hungary #hungarianmemories #quarantena #covid19italia #covid #covid_19 #quarantine #hungariandinner #food #foodporn #foodphotography #foodpornhungary (presso Verona, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9um6_JI22f/?igshid=1f8ik20wqmmh3
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biborvarazs · 5 years ago
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🇹🇯 3 a magyar igazság, +1 a ráadás. 🇹🇯 www.biborvarazs.etsy.com www.facebook.com/biborvarazs www.biborvarazs.meska.hu #magyaros #hungariandecor #hungariansouvenir #magyarosajándék #hungariangift #hungarianmemory #hungarian #magyaros #magyarosdísz #biborvarazs #freeship #decoupage #decoupageart #artisan #bottleart #magyarosüveg #címeresüveg #díjmentesszállítás #meska #meska.hu #etsy #egyediajándék #kézművesajándék #meskakincs #meskaalkoto #meskánvettem #meskaboltomvan #veddamagyart #hagyományőrzők #meska #magyarcimer https://www.instagram.com/p/B9ZIJb0hKgD/?igshid=11qs9eh914v0r
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hungarianmemories · 8 years ago
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My Youngest Daughter
     My daughter Sofia Elisabeth is my youngest daughter and my youngest child.  She is nine years old and the light of my life.  I have three other children, the first one being grown up at 19 years old, and the other two more grown than not at age fifteen, a boy, and thirteen, a girl.  So I am acutely aware of how fast my little girl will grow up and move away from me, emotionally and physically too, when she'll want to spread her wings and join the world.  It's a scary thing.  Knowing that will happen.  Right now I cherish hearing her little girl voice call me "Momma" and ask a million questions a day.  I love that she hugs me, really buries her little body into mine and I feel her squeezing arms, hear her breathing, and feel her warmth. ��I bend over and kiss the top of her head and smell her hair.  I love that she loves hugging me.  I love that she loves me just because I am her mother.  I miss having a baby in my arms.  To feel that lump of flesh in your arms...again...is an ache that won't go away. No one can forget what that feels like.  And if they do, then they've already lost so much.
     Sofia is still at that age when there's still wonder in her child eyes about the world around her. She wakes up happy to greet the new morning and the first thing that she does is come into our bedroom to say good morning. Her sleepy eyes and soft swollen face meet my squinty look from my bed.  No matter, she comes over for a kiss and a hug and to take the iPad and play her games on it.  The charger is in our room only so this electronic distraction can be refueled for our daughter. So it's not just that she gives me a hug. If only it were that.
     After dinner time we went for a bike ride in our neighborhood that includes a golf course of eighteen holes and Lake Morey so we have many pretty places to bicycle. It's May and the first flowers are just popping through the hard ground left by a very long and gray winter that seemed to challenge even the oldest Vermonters.  Grass is turning that lovely green of Spring and birds are chirping and singing and fluttering from tree to tree.  The world is a great place for a nine year old girl on her bike.
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biborvarazs · 5 years ago
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🇹🇯Hungarian decor bottle 🇹🇯 Magyar címeres üveg. 🇭🇺 www.biborvarazs.etsy.com www.facebook.com/biborvarazs www.biborvarazs.meska.hu #magyaros #hungariandecor #hungariansouvenir #magyarosajándék #hungariangift #hungarianmemory #hungarian #magyaros #magyarosdísz #biborvarazs #freeship #decoupage #decoupageart #artisan #bottleart #díjmentesszállítás #meska #meska.hu #etsy #egyediajándék #kézművesajándék #meskakincs #meskaalkoto #meskánvettem #meskaboltomvan #veddamagyart #hagyományőrzők #meska #magyarcimer https://www.instagram.com/p/B9UVnichqzl/?igshid=vmh9p0z022tm
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biborvarazs · 5 years ago
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🇹🇯 Magyaros dísz-és használati ajándékok 🇹🇯 Hungarian decor souvenirs🇹🇯 www.biborvarazs.etsy.com www.facebook.com/biborvarazs www.biborvarazs.meska.hu #folkart #népművészet #magyaros #hungariandecor #hungariansouvenir #magyarosajándék #hungariangift #hungarianmemory #hungarian #magyaros #magyarosdísz #biborvarazs #freeship #decoupage #decoupageart #artisan #artistry #díjmentesszállítás #meska #meska.hu #etsy #egyediajándék #kézművesajándék #etsyggifts #etsyhungary https://www.instagram.com/p/B39lmR1h2a1/?igshid=rlmfh4irnwqo
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biborvarazs · 5 years ago
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🇹🇯 Magyaros dísz-és használati ajándékok 🇹🇯 Hungarian decor souvenirs 🇹🇯 www.biborvarazs.etsy.com www.facebook.com/biborvarazs www.biborvarazs.meska.hu #folkart #népművészet #magyaros #hungariandecor #hungariansouvenir #magyarosajándék #hungariangift #hungarianmemory #hungarian #magyaros #magyarosdísz #biborvarazs #freeship #decoupage #decoupageart #artisan #artistry #díjmentesszállítás #meska #meska.hu #etsy #egyediajándék #kézművesajándék https://www.instagram.com/p/B07s5CYB3zr/?igshid=20xpu28k3ab7
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biborvarazs · 6 years ago
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🥚Kalocsai mintás dísz-és használati tárgyak. 🇹🇯 www.biborvarazs.etsy.com www.facebook.com/biborvarazs www.biborvarazs.meska.hu #folkart #kalocsa #népművészet #easterdecor #hungariandecor #hungariansouvenir #easteregg #surprisegift #hungariangift #hungarianmemory #hungarian #magyaros #magyarosdísz #magyarosajándék #húsvétidekor #húsvétidísz #magyarostojás #húsvétitojás #meglepetéstojás #biborvarazs #freeship #decoupage #decoupageart #artisan #artistry #díjmentesszállítás #meska #meska.hu #etsy #egyediajándék #kézművesajándék https://www.instagram.com/p/BwT5-QngZxf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=uzb1ndzmt373
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biborvarazs · 6 years ago
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🇹🇯 Magyaros, címeres kerámia tojástartó, gyertyatartó és meglepetés tojás 3 az 1-ben, nem csak húsvétra, magyarországi emlék 🇹🇯 www.facebook.com/biborvarazs www.biborvarazs.etsy.com www.biborvarazs.meska.hu #easterdecor #hungariandecor #hungariansouvenir #easteregg #surprisegift #hungariangift #hungarianmemory #hungarian #magyaros #magyarosdísz #magyarosajándék #húsvétidekor #húsvétidísz #magyarostojás #húsvétitojás #meglepetéstojás #biborvarazs #freeship #decoupage #decoupageart #artisan #artistry #díjmentesszállítás #meska #meska.hu #etsy #egyediajándék #kézművesajándék https://www.instagram.com/p/BvCqFGMgxAR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qavf0apgy2p1
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biborvarazs · 6 years ago
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I ❤ 🇭🇺 Traditional hungarian decorational kitchenwares. I ❤🌶 I ❤🇭🇺 Tradícionális magyaros dekoráciojú konyhai dísz-és használati tárgyak. I❤🌶 www.facebook.com/biborvarazs www.biborvarazs.meska.hu #traditional #hungary #hungariandecor #kitchendecor #homedecor #folkart #hungariandecor #redpepper #hungarian #decoupage #handmade #handpainted #giftidea #hungariangift #tradicionális #magyar #magyaros #pirospaprika #fűszerpaprika #paprika #népművészet #hagyományörző #kézművesajándék #magyarországiemlék #hungarianmemory #egyediajándék #magyarosajándék #magyarosdekor #freeshipping #ingyenesszállítás #biborvarazs https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn9PrVUBbX0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=c8c5oi0mgu8v
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hungarianmemories · 9 years ago
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everyone’s moving so fast...
I was leaving work at MGH sometime around 3:30 in the afternoon. I talked to my brother earlier in the day and he said that he’d pick me up at work. He said that he had a doctor’s appointment and would take me home afterwards. I was rushing down the crowded wide hallway to where he’d be waiting for me because if we left too late then we’d get caught up in a tangle of slow moving traffic.
I caught a glimpse of him sitting on a bench. He was wearing a wool hat, like men from the 1940s. sitting slightly hunched forward with his eyes looking upward at all the people brushing past him. He looked so old in that moment. And it took him a few seconds to see me walking towards him. I quickly sat down next to him and he just sat there amazed at how fast everyone was walking to somewhere else. As if realizing for the first time ever, he mused that “boy, everyone is walking so fast, so fast” as he shook his head in disbelief. In that moment my brother realized that he no longer was a part of that hectic speed of life. His had slowed down to that of a man with congestive heart failure at a relatively young age. His speed was that of an ejection fraction of 15% and whose life expectancy was six months. 
Those drives home were when we’d get to talk and spend time together. We’d talk on the phone everyday, always checking in and asking the same simple questions: “Hi, how are you? How’s Momi and Daddy? How’s your appetite? Feeling better? And then if it were Sunday night, we’d remind each other to watch “Antiques Roadshow” on PBS, our favorite show. I haven’t watched it since my brother died in 2000. It’s still on the air too. All the fun was gone because Geza and I loved the thrill of “the find.” Oh my God, we’d gush about the 16th century Milanese ceremonial helmut that was in someone’s attic for thirty years, or the painting worth millions, etc. As avid collectors of other people’s junk, nothing would be more fun than perusing the aisles of an antique fair. Where would our treasure be found?
I miss those days of hanging out with my brother because I didn’t have a lot of that when I was a little girl. Since my brother was nearly 20 years older than me, he was already grown up and out of the house when I came along to disrupt my mother’s and father’s mid life. Suddenly they had to care for a premature baby that they weren’t planning on having. A miracle, a gift, my sister said. More like, WTF? if you ask me. It had to be, sort of like the gift that felt like a curse too because how can you love something so much and then at the same time feel so burdened by this gift. Babies. That’s what they’re all about-a confusing bundle of soft, sweet smelling flesh and tireless energy to vex you and seduce your better judgement into falling in love. And there you have it: why we have babies. None of it makes sense and yet my arms ache for that small bundle of flesh. And they do grow up. Mine almost all grown at 11, 15 and 17 with the oldest being the know-it-all at twenty one. 
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hungarianmemories · 9 years ago
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Silence
Silence. It’s something I hear too often, and too long, from my sister. She suddenly disappears from my life like she fell off the face of the earth. Then, after a time, she reappears as if nothing had ever happened and she was there all along. I don’t know why this happens or what it means, all I know is that it happens. One time my brother and I had a running bet as to how long it would be before our sister picked up the phone to call me. I think nine months had passed. The entire length of my pregnancy. It was an experiment then, twenty two years ago. She had heard from our father that I was pregnant so she called on my due date November 10th, to ask how I was doing. My son was born on November 16th and I saw my sister at the hospital on the 17th. It’s inexplicable. One time I had asked her about it when I was waiting for her to respond to my email and she said that her husband had commandeered the computer to watch missed TV shows from years before. She just doesn’t get it.
I guess she doesn’t have a strong sense of how what she does or doesn’t do affects her family or friends in her life. But it does, in a big way. I have often felt rejected or somehow neglected by my sister when I knew how much time and energy she spent on nurturing her friendships. Hence, the birth of that “experiment” so many years ago. I once gave some thought to the idea that after our father died that I would never see or talk to her again. My sister likes to believe that it’s not her “fault” and that it was all out of her control and that she was blameless, as if the universe conspired to make hardship for her when I’ve confronted her about why she didn’t call for so long or keep in touch with me. There’s something to be said for accepting responsibility, your role in the outcome. I admit that it was much easier for me to delve into my own world and not ask her about why she was absent from my life. After that, moving forward begins from a new slate and not one bogged down by half truths and deceptions. Maybe that’s why we have so many troubles, me and my sister. It’s hard to recognize where the truth hides and how to uncover the tangle of lies we tell our selves about what we want to believe. Maybe that Hungarian pride keeps us apart. And feeling unwanted is hard to shake off. 
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hungarianmemories · 9 years ago
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Geza and Erzsebet with baby Geza Miklos early 1944, Budapest, Hungary
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hungarianmemories · 9 years ago
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Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Memorial in Liberty Square, Boston, MA
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It was a cold October day in Boston during the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution in 2006. We were there together with my father who was 90 years old! My kids were still too little to really appreciate the magnitude of this event and what it meant to their Papa. Sofia was a new two year old, Sierra was 6 years, Jeremy was 8 and Ryan was just about to turn 12 years old, just one year younger than my brother was when they defected from Hungary during the revolution in 1956. So sad that my brother didn’t live to see this day too. Amyloidosis took him from us at the age of 56 on July 24, 2000. 
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hungarianmemories · 9 years ago
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Camp Kilmer in NJ
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This was the camp that my family first arrived to in the United States in January 1957.
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hungarianmemories · 9 years ago
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The Voyage of the General Eltinge
By André B. Sobocinski, BUMED Historian
“Today will be remembered as a day of tears for the 1,750 Hungarian Refugees who came aboard the Eltinge this A.M. The tears were for thankfulness not regret.  They were shared by the men of the U.S. Navy participating in this special mission ordered by President Eisenhower”
~ The official account of USNS Leroy Eltinge (TAP-154)
The Voyage of the General Eltinge
The voyage of USNS General Leroy Eltinge (T-AP-154) represented the Navy’s first effort in the massive sea lift of Hungarian refugees. (1) The former World War II troopship, had brought thousands of U.S. service personnel home from the war. In 1949, the Eltinge was one of several ships used to transport many of the Second World War’s “Displaced Persons”; later the ship would carry Greek, Ethiopian and United Nation troops to Korea in 1953.
eltinge The refugees covered a wide-range of professions and backgrounds; students, professors, physicians, dentists, craftsmen, nurses, musicians, homemakers, artists, athletes, and factory workers.
On December 201956, 1,747 Hungarian refugees boarded the General Eltinge in Bremerhaven, Germany. (2)  Some donned uniforms of the Hungarian Army, many proudly wore lapel buttons identifying them as freedom fighters. A passenger carried a Hungarian flag with a black mourning band. There were 88 children under the age of ten, almost 200 adult women, and close to 1,500 adult males. The refugees covered a wide-range of professions and backgrounds; students, professors, physicians, dentists, craftsmen, nurses, musicians, homemakers, artists, athletes, and factory workers. In the mix were engaged couples, pregnant women, and orphans.  One refugee, Laszlo Donka, a 13-year old boy, fled the country after his father was killed and his mother captured by the communists. (3)
Before setting sail, messages from U.S. Consul Andrew Lynch and Vice Adm. J.M. Will, Commander of the Military Sealift Command, were read over the ship’s public address system in English and Hungarian, followed by renditions of the Star Spangled Banner and “Himnusz,” the Hungarian National Anthem.
Hungarian3 On Christmas Eve, while families congregated in the dining hall, they were visited by a crew member dressed as St. Nicholas bringing refreshments and stockings full of toys and noisemakers for the children. The Eltinge departed the following day through a heavy fog that seemed to frame the moment.  On December 23, Christmas trees were set up by the crew, and mess tables were used to make streamers. On Christmas Eve, while families congregated in the dining hall, they were visited by a crewmember dressed as St. Nicholas bringing refreshments and stockings full of toys and noisemakers for the children. (4)
Rear Adm. Hubert Van Peenan, medical officer aboard this trip, noted that the passengers were relatively young, most in their early 20s.  Van Peenan would write that they were “very active, excessively curious, enthusiastic, not at all timorous or depressed and their recent sufferings seemed to be repressed or forgotten. Their curiosity and motor activity soon led them swarming all over the ship and they wasted no time in reading instructions or listening to the public address system.”(5) Navy personnel later reported that those who spoke English asked “if they could help with any duties aboard ship” and even “how could they join the Navy?”
Hungarian2 Rear Adm. Hubert Van Peenan, medical officer aboard this trip, noted that the passengers were relatively young, most in their early 20s. Van Peenan would write that they were “very active, excessively curious, enthusiastic, not at all timorous or depressed and their recent sufferings seemed to be repressed or forgotten. Van Peenan was joined aboard the Eltinge by medical officer Lt. Melvin Borowsky, two nurses, Lt. Cmdrs. Mary Vaughan and Catherine Recicar and two WAVES Corpsmen.  Medical conditions were typical for such a voyage; seasickness proved the biggest issue with 90 cases reported, resulting in the dispensing of more than 12,000 Dramamine pills.  In an office memorandum entitled “A Hungarian Deluge,” from the “Brooklyn Sea Nymphs” to the “Washington Express,” Lt. Borowsky wrote, “The angry seas caused a green reflection on all Hungarian refugee faces. Many had the Elvis Presley haircut and the Rock ‘n Roll of the ship gave them the playful dance.”(6)
Other medical issues reported included upper respiratory infections, 66 cases, 66 visits, and even six admitted with gunshot wounds suffered in the revolt. A 21-year-old patient was treated for a bullet wound in his clavicle.  The medical staff reported peptic conditions, epilepsy, hypertension, 350 colds, and 67 suspected cases of pulmonary tuberculosis. Several passengers were pregnant, including one in her ninth month. On the morning of January 1, 1957, the day of the ship’s arrival to the U.S., Gabriela Matusek gave birth to her first child, a 6.5 pound boy named Heinrich Tibor Matusek.  He was nicknamed “Leroy” after the ship. Van Peenan, a 28-year veteran, remarked it was the first time he ever delivered a baby at sea. (7)
Hungarian Refugees Crowd Boat Deck The Eltinge would offer 250 cabin spaces for families with children and an additional 1,500 troop bunks allocated for single men. The Hungarian Relief Operation
The Hungarian Relief Operation would mark the largest influx of Cold War refugees until the Cuban crisis beginning in the late 1950s. From December 1956 to May 1957, more than 35,000 Hungarian refugees were transported aboard 214 Air Force Military Air Transportation Service (MATS) flights, five Navy MSC ships, as well as 133 flights chartered by the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM). The entire relief operation saw more than 20 governmental and volunteer organizations work together to transport, provide medical care, and manage job placement and housing programs.  It’s estimated that the entire operation cost about $12 million (about $104 million in today’s money).
Endnotes
(1)    On December 7th, 1956, the first Air Force flight left Munich Airport landing at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey to commence its Project Safe Haven.  Some 20 Air Force MATS planes (each carrying between 58 and 72 passengers) would be diverted from their usual cargo runs.
(2)     The Eltinge would offer 250 cabin spaces for families with children and an additional 1,500 troop bunks allocated for single men.
(3)     Daily Account of the Navy’s Hungarian Refugee Sealift, Nurse Corps Collection, Box 26, Folder 11, U.S. Navy Operational Archives.
(4)     Daily Account of the Navy’s Hungarian Refugee Sealift, Nurse Corps Collection, Box 26, Folder 11, U.S. Navy Operational Archives.
(5)     Daily Account.
(6)     Brooklyn Sea Nymphs Memo. Nurse Corps Collection, Box 26, Folder 11, U.S. Navy Operational Archives.
(7)     As a former World War II POW who was repatriated during Operation Magic Carpet  one can conjecture that Van Peenan cast a sympathetic eye his patients and fellow passengers aboard the Eltinge.
(8)     Burd, Laurence. Ike Sets up Air-Sea Lift for Refugees: 3 Navy Transports to Join Operation. Chicago Daily Tribune; Dec 7, 1956. Pg 5.
(9)     Coridon, Guy. Report on Hungarian Refugees. CIA Historical Review Program. (https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol2no1/html/v02i1a07p_0001.htm)
- See more at: http://navymedicine.navylive.dodlive.mil/archives/8922#sthash.CWS69tSv.dpuf
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hungarianmemories · 9 years ago
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Sailing to America
TRANSPORT TO AMERICA USS General LeRoy Eltinge USS General LeRoy Eltinge (AP-154) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship for the US Navy in World War II. She was named in honor of US Armygeneral LeRoy Eltinge. She was transferred to the US Army as USAT General LeRoy Eltinge in 1946. On 20 July 1950 she was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) as USNS General LeRoy Eltinge (T-AP-154). She was later sold for commercial use and operated under the names SS Robert E. Lee and SS Robert Toombs, before being scrapped in 1980.
General LeRoy Eltinge resumed operations between the United States and Europe 18 May 1956. Following the Hungarian Revolution 23 October – 4 November 1956, she supported the refugee relief program; and during December she embarked several thousand refugees at Bremerhaven for passage to the United States. The 2007 documentary filmFreedom Dance, which follows artist Edward Hilbert and his wife, Judy, during their escape from Hungary includes an account of this voyage of General LeRoy Eltinge. The ship suffered through a large storm during the crossing of the Atlantic.MSTS (Military Sea Transport Service) Eltinge 
REFUGEE MANIFEST January 1, 1957
Hungarian Refugees from Austria to the USA for emergency admission. 1130 refugees were transported on 18 January 1957 from Camp Roeder, Salzburg to Bremerhaven for embarkation to the USA on the ELTINGE. Gyorky family Page 21; Looks like they were on trains 3 or 4 – can’t find any list of trains.
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