Take a moment to introduce yourself!

I am Don and husband to Liz. While I do not have Hungarian heritage I have definitely developed a love for all things Hungarian and live getting chances to join Liz on her tours to Hungary.

I am Carole Holtzman. My dad was born and raised in Hungary and came to Canada in 1927. As I got older I was interested in meeting my Hungarian relatives. I made my first visit to Hungary in 1986. What a great time I had. This fall I am going on a tour to Berlin. Prague, Vienna and Budapest. I have added 4 extra nights to go visit my relatives. I am definitely interested in all things Hungarian!

My sister is Carole Holtzman, also on this site, so I have the same history that she does. We first went to Hungary in 1986, and it was so wonderous to meet our large family! I will be joining her in Budapest, it’ll be amazing!
I really like this expo!

Greetings from Michigan. I was born in Detroit to a mother who had just come to America the year before. She had married my father when he went back to Hungary for a visit. Detroit used to have a very vibrant Hungarian community called Delray. It is all gone now in the name of progress. I still live is SE Michigan. Both sets of my grandparents were Hungarian. I only met my maternal grandmother shortly before she past. I speak Hungarian fluently and have been there several times to visit family.

I’m Amy Buz, and I attended the Expo last year as Amy Claprood. In the last year, I married my Hungarian husband (Joe) and moved to Budapest! He is a first-generation American (both parents are Hungarian – one from Budapest and one from the Őrség area) with dual HU/US citizenship. He is fluent; I am struggling with the language. But I love the culture that is adopting me, and the community that surrounds us here.

Hi! My name is Stacey DeLong and this is my first Hungarian Heritage Expo! I live in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. My maternal great-grandparents and others in the family emigrated here to Elizabeth, NJ from Hungary in 1905. My great-grandparents then settled in Moore Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania 8 years later. My great-uncle and his wife left Elizabeth and settled in Detroit, Michigan. Just last week I made a breakthrough and was able to trace my great-grandfather, Niklos Focht’s family back to Lenauheim/Schadat/Csatad, Hungary where my 5th great-grandfather, Heinrich Focht, was an original settler from Germany. My maternal great-grandmother, Iren Folinuscz, lived in Transylvania in Dobra Commune, Hunyad County, Hungary. She taught my grandmother and mother how to bake all of the yummy Hungarian goodies and so much more! My grandmother always talked about being German and her parents coming from Germany, but I never knew they were Germans living in those areas of Hungary. I’ve been told my other sets of great-grandparents are also from Hungary, so I can’t wait to start researching them and learning more. I’m excited to attend the classes at the Expo and learn more about my heritage!

I am Jami Beserock (Beszerák is the Hungarian spelling that is on my great-grandfather’s grave in Slovakia). My great-grandfather came to the US in the early 1900’s from Ungvar, Hungary (now Uzhhorod, Ukraine). My grandfather spoke fluent Hungarian but did not pass it down to the rest of the family. We found our Hungarian family late in life after my grandfather died. I am lucky to work at a university and have taken and retaken Hungarian several times (and also Czech to help when I am in Slovakia), though I’m still not fluent but I can communicate with my family. I currently have family in Budapest, Hungary, Kassa (Košice, Slovakia), and Nagykapos (Veľké Kapušany, Slovakia). Most of my family speaks little to no English at all. I was just in Budapest and Slovakia in May for almost 3 weeks. I have been to Hungary and Slovakia several times and hope to spend more time there after I retire in a few years. There is more to my story but too much to explain here. I think this is my third expo I’ve attended.