43rd National Táncház Festival & Fair • 5–7 April 2024
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On History’s Path – Kóka Rozália tracks the fates of Székely Hungarian families relocated from Bukovina. From Istenes/Višnjevac to Majos (today a district of the town of Bonyhád in Tolna County, southwestern Hungary). This is the story of Mrs. Szőcs István – whose parents were Székely Hungarians from the Bukovina village of Istensegíts (today Țibeni, Romania). They had been relocated to Višnjevac (in the North Backa district of Serbia) in 1941 where Mrs. Szőcs was born in 1943. Then in 1944 during World War II her family was expelled from Višnjevac and ended up in a labor camp in Szikics/Lovćenac. By spring of 1945 her mother had died. In Hungary in 1946 and her father remarried and she was sent to a foster home. She was fortunate, her adoptive parents were also originally from Bukovina, they were kind and gave her a good home. Later, in the 1980s Mrs. Szőcs made contact and made friends with the Serbian family from the house in Višnjevac where she was born.