44th National Táncház Festival & Fair • 4–6 April 2025
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Starting page: 34
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A group of Székely Hungarians left Bukovina in the spring of 1910. They relocated in the village of Sztrigyszentgyörgy/Streisângeorgiu in Transylvania’s Hunyad County. Then in 1922-23, after WWI, 30 Bukovina Hungarian families left Transylvania for Brazil hoping for a better life. Some of those families ended up trying to make it somewhere in the Brazilian jungle, where they founded a community they named Boldogasszonyfalva. Sometimes news of the families in the Brazilian jungle found its way back to the cantor in Sztrigyszentgyörgy who kept a diary chronicling them. Here are excerpts from the diaries of village cantor Benkő Lajos (died approx 1983) for Kóka Rozália’s series: On History’s Road.