Hi! My name is Sally Al-Hashimi – maiden name was Eperjesi. All 4 grandparents immigrated from HU to U.S. in early 1900’s. I grew up in a multi-generation household in a very Hungarian neighborhood in Detroit called Delray (also mentioned by Paul Gyorke). Growing up, we frequently spoke Hungarian at home for the benefit of my grandparents, but I hadn’t studied the language formally until a few years ago. Have made a couple trips to Hungary – can’t get enough of it! Enjoy all things Hungarian – the culture, the music, the food, the people! Looking forward to another Expo – always so interesting.
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.
Greetings from Christopher Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada! grandfather Sandor Szuetta was born 8 Apr 1898 in what is now Nižný Hrabovec, Slovakia, his parents were indoor servants. He immigrated into Canada in 1926 after marrying Anna Smajda in Bodrogolaszi. She immigrated the following year and they homesteaded in the Deer Ridge area just north of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan for about 15 years during the depression of the 1930’s. Then they moved to the nearby city of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. I have been researching my family tree for the last few years, and I’m always looking for more information to add.
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!
I am Al Starnes from Cleveland, OH. My mother was born in Vécs, Heves Megye. Her grandfather came to America in 1903 to work in WV coal mines to start earning money to bring family over from Hungary. In 1923 he sent for his wife, children and my mother (grand-daughter). They then moved to Virginia to own a farm. My mother and her grandmother came to Cleveland in 1937 to look for work in the Great Depression. They were very familiar with the Buckey Hungarian Neiborhood.
In 1993 I traveled to Vécs and got to see the house my mother was born in which my cousins still live in….outhouse, chicken yard and all. LOL
I wish I could go back. Only know a few words in Hungarian. Mom only spoke around her friends that also understood.
Thank you, Liz, for your Hungarian Recipe Challenge a few years ago. Was a great time participating and remembering some of the great dishes that my Mom used to make!
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!
I am Heidi Smith. My dad, my uncle, and my grandparents were living in Budapest not far from 60 Andrássy út. They fled during the 1956 revolution with no documentation or anything else. They were sent to Connecticut and ultimately settled in California, where I was born.
Both of my grandparents passed on too early, and I only had my grandmother until I was 13. I wasn’t raised with much Hungarian cultural influence or language, or at least nothing that was labeled as such. Now my own children are 16 and 18 years old, and we are exploring our Hungarian heritage and trying to make up what sometimes feels like lost time. I want to learn it all, experience it all, and hopefully take in enough to feel like my seeming foreign heritage is actually a part of me. I’m looking forward to the expó and meeting more people!
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 Liz (Szabo) Vos and I grew up in Youngstown, Ohio with an active Hungarian community. I am not a fluent speaker but I am passionate about Hungarian things. 3 of my 4 grandparents were born in Hungary and all of my great-grandparents were born in Hungary (or what was Hungary at that time).
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