According to my mother, a Gypsy prince was buried in Allentown years ago, she knew about such things. She was born in Galgo, Hungary, an area of Transylvania, now part of Romania, near present day Gilgau. In Galgo, the Jews and Gypsies lived on the edge of town. In the early 20's, my grandparents, along with their Gypsy neighbors, came to Bethlehem to work at the Steel. On weekends, to make extra money, my grandparents would open their house and show Hungarian movies. None of their relatives, Jew or Gypsy, save one cousin, survived the Nazis... Even the cemeteries were desecrated. As you can see from the document above, my grandfather earned his citizenship the hard way.
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Please allow me, Mr. Molovinsky, to offer my sincere congratulations to your ancestral relatives on their clear and obvious ability to successfully 'assimilate' into American cultural society.
ReplyDelete"Herzliche Glueckwunsch" (heartfelt / sincere congrats), as my own particular cultural ancestors would undoubtedly be wont to say, the very same ones who took the long boat ride across the Atlantic Ocean before settling in Chicago at the close of the 19th century, that is.
Geschichte bleibt immer sehr wichtig.
Thank you very much for this important, perspective reinforcement post and a very pleasant evening to you then, as always.