43rd National Táncház Festival & Fair • 5–7 April 2024
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Bukovina, Bukovina – Part 15. Excerpts from Kóka Rozália’s book of memoires. When the 1989 governmental changes made it possible to establish civil organizations in Hungary, the Székely Hungarians immediately formed organizations in towns where Székely people lived. But the government changes also caused formerly government owned/supported employers to fold. People found themselves unemployed. New businesses were started and soon went broke. During this unstable period Rozália gathered the material and published her first book of lore on Hungarian King Mátyás. In May of 1991 on the 50th anniversary of the Bukovina Hungarians’ arrival to Hungary, Rozália organized the first Bukovina Székely Meeting and Conference in Budapest and Érd. Twenty years later in 2011, the 70th anniversary of the Bukovina Hungarians’ arrival to Hungary was celebrated with meetings and conferences held in Budapest and Érd.