43rd National Táncház Festival & Fair • 5–7 April 2024
Issue:
Starting page: 35
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Part I : the life of Dr. Gerzanics Magdolna An extraordinary account of a Hungarian woman who was born in the 1930’s, the youngest in a family of 13 children in Ruthenia in Southewestern Ukraine. The course of events over the next 20 years took her to four countries and a dozen diff erent villages and schools, as the borders of Hungary changed and the war brought all manner of chaos during those years. This woman’s life is an example of the trials that people went through in order to keep alive, stay together with family, finish elementary school and enter adulthood. As told to Kóka Rozália