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English Finnish Swedish Bulgarian Hungarian Ivrit
Hi Moi Hej Zdravei Szia שלום
Good
morn-
ing
Hyvää
Huom-
enta
God
Mor-
gon
Dobro
utro
Jó reg-
gelt
בוקר
טוב
Good
evening
Hyvää
iItaa
God
Kväll
Dobar
vesher
Jó estét
ערב
טוב
Stone Kivi Sten Kamik kő אבן
1,2,3,4 Yksi, Kaksi,
Kolme,
neljä
Ett,
två,
tre,
fyra
Edno
Dve
Tri
chetiri
Egy,
kettő,
három,
négy
אחד
שתיים
שלוש
ארבע
Sum-
mer
holiday
Kesälo
ma
Samm
arlow
Liatna
vakancia
Nyári
szünet
חופשת
קיץ
The participants arrived from the different schools and countries and gathered at
the camp on Sunday 12th June, 2011.
In the beginning it was strange because the children didn’t know each other and
making contact was difficult. However thanks to different games and activities plus
the fact that we had to live in the same room with children from other schools and
countries – the ice was broken quickly.
Some adapted to the working conditions quicker than others. There were some
smart kids who managed to get electrical saws which helped even more.
On Tuesday we met Peter Roth, the mayor of Szekesfehervar, who was very grate-
ful for the work we were doing. We found out later that Judit Javor’s father is the
head of the Jewish community in Szekesfehervar and their family and friends were
very touched that the abandoned graves of the people who had lived there before
were being restored respectfully by Jews and non-Jews working together.
On Wednesday we finished the work in the cemetery in Szekesfehervar and could
enjoy a trip in a dragon boat on the lake. There was spontaneous water fighting
which the teachers didn’t appreciate but the kids had fun together and we could see
that the strong friendships were being formed.
On Thursday we had a special memorial service at Lovasbereny. This was because
a descendant of Lovasbereny had made sure to restore that graveyard before but it
had never been commemorated. Dr Erossne Dr. Nacsa Olga Person responsible for
the development of connections in the Ministry of Justice and Administration par-
ticipated in this service. So our Rabbi Dov Levy led the service where the children
lit candles, read texts and then we prayed together El Mole Rachamim. It was very
touching and felt like we had somehow made a bridge with the past to repair the
broken link which was caused by the Holocaust.
We arrived in Budapest on Thursday afternoon and since then have been able to
relax a little. Eating our breakfasts and lunches at Masoret Avot, the American En-
dowment School and sightseeing Jewish and non- Jewish sites in the city. We also
went to three different synagogues and saw the diversity of Jewish and non-Jewish
life in Budapest. Janos Halasz, minister responsible for the Parliament connections
in the Ministry of Human Resources met the group there.
This trip has enabled us to make new friends, learn new things and have fun while
we were made to feel that we were doing something important for the people who
had lived here in the past.
Patrona Hungarie:
The camp was so great. Every day we went to the cemetry. In this cemetry there are
a lot of people who died in the Holocaust in the II. World War. While we were
cleaning the cemetry we could meet people who came foreign contries. We could
work together. Every afternoon, after the lunch we had a freetime. After that time
we played in international groups. In the evenings we had more freetime and we had
time to talk each other. I think we felt ourselves really good. I hope that our new
friendships will be sustained.
Wrote: Lexi, Gréti, Anna, Zsuzsanna Katalin, Alexandra, Tünde
St. Bazil Scool: The camp was a superb opportunity for us to get to know each
other's culture, history and religion better. The common work in
the cemetery made us a real team. We could experience that we
can carry out wonderful things together. The time we spent
together provided us with the opportunity to develop our English.
We could at the same time study Bulgarian, Swedish and Finnish.
Our accomodation was located on the coast of Lake Velencei, a
beautiful sight opened up in front of us every day. We could try
the dragon boating on the lake and we could swim of course on
the first day of camping. We may regard it as a form of developing
knowing ourselves better since our problem-solving skills
improved, all of us have become more independent. I think this is
a memory that everybody will remember with pleasure later.
Wrote: Judit,Petra,Dóri
American Endowment School:
Working in the cemetery on a Wednesday day i (Török Márton) and
Csáki András uncle. We were not glad that it was not possible to
work in the cemetery very much got saws and the fire brigade was
the cemetery behind his back so something swept trough András
mind teacher lord and accross we fetched a chainsaw, but did not
give the flat big one saws only unfortunately so we had to suffer it
longer!
Wrote: Marton Török, Benjamin Lamperth
The programme was a very good. The common work made in the cemetery
real team united us. I think that this is a memory that anybody
remembers with pleasure back up in the later ones.
Wrote: Benjamin Lamperth
The Jewish community of Székesfehérvár It is a very small community with not more than 50 people in-
cluded the Jewish people living not only in the city but also in the
surrounding towns and villages. Most of them are old people.
There are hardly any children or young.
They have services only at the greater holidays. At those occasions,
they invite a rabbi and a cantor from Budapest. Even this way, it is
difficult to gather 10 men.
They have serious personal and financial problems with keeping
the cemetery clean and tidy permanently. Sometimes they get do-
nations from emigrant Jews from all over the world, but it is
enough only to care for the tombs of the relatives of the donators.
The whole cemetery last was cleaned about 20 years ago.
That’s why this program is extremely important for the community.
There is nobody who can do this work for them. They are very
grateful to the children and their teachers for having done such
wonderful job. They greatly appreciate what have been done.
Judit Jávor
FINLAND QUIZ 1) Who made the” lacrosse” goal for Finland in the hockey world champion-
ships? a) Tuomo Ruutu
b) Mikael Granlund
c) Mikko Koivu
2) Which finnish band won the Eurovision song contest 2006?
a) Lordi
b) Indica
c) The Rasmus
3) What two languages are spoken in Finland?
a) Finnish and Russian
b) Finnish and English
c) Finnish and Swedish
4) Which mobile phone brand comes from Finland?
a) Nokia
b) Samsung
c) Motorola
5) What´s the capital of Finland?
a) Tampere
b) Lahti
c) Helsinki
6) What´s the biggest lake in Finland?
a) Laatokka
a) Saimaa
c) Baikal
7) What´s the highest mountain?
a) Mount Everest
b) Halti
c) Saana
8) When did Finland become independent?
a) 1809
b) 1945
c) 1917
9) Who is the current president?
a) Urho Kekkonen
b) Tarja Halonen
c) Martti Ahtisaari
10) Where do Finns bathe regulary?
a) In the sauna
b) in a pool
c) They never bathes!
11) Which was Finland’s currency before Euro?
a) Krone
b) Pound
c) Markka
12) What sea is near Finland?
a) the Atlantic Ocean
b) Mediterrian Sea
c) Baltic Sea
13) What´s the population of Finland?
a) 6, 5 million
b) 2 million
c) 10 million
14) What´s the biggest lake in Finland?
a) Laatokka
b) Saimaa
c) Baikal
15) What´s the highest mountain in finland?
a) Mount Everest
b) Halti Trip to Hungary
We arrived at a camp in the Hungarian countryside. There were people from Finland, Bulgary
and Hungary. Everybody started to get to know each other. An assignment everybody got
during this camp was to cut trees and bushes to make a cemetery nice. The assignment took
three days, and about three hours per day. It felt good to make the cemetery nice to respect
those who died before the 2nd world war. The heat in Hungary was great. But it was quite
humid.
Later on we were on a ``dragon boat” and we were the ``engine”. But it was great.
Alot of people were Jewish. Now we are in a nice hostel. We are in the middle of Budapest.
I’ve learned from this trip that anybody can do a good favor, as long as you are willing to help.
And we made a cemetery nice because others couldn’t.
We Jewish students from Finland feel that the trip has been amazing. Revealing the graves
from bushes, leaves and trees was a really hard work but rewarding. The unknown graves got
their names and respect back. We feel really happy that we had the chance to come here! We
got new friends and we really hope we can keep in touch.
Thank you for this amazing trip! Lia, Frida, Saara, Dekel, and Jonatan
The Bulgarian group from the Jewish school in Sofia is glad being part of this
project. We are grateful about all the work we have done. Although we would like
this camp to become a tradiotion. We think that the work in the cemetary was really
important. We were also very happy to visit the mayor.
We think that the projects we did are very useful for the world tolerance and we
hope to be in them again. It was nice meeting new people during the camp. We will
always remember this camp and hope it will continue in the next years.
The story of the Jewish Community of Lovasberény
There are several hundreds of abandoned Jewish cemeteries in Hungary. It is one of the
bitter inheritance of the Holocaust. Of course there are positive examples as well: there
was a miracle in Lovasberény.
In Lovasberény there were Jewish families since Turkish times and by 1830, one third of
the current population were Jews.They had their own synagogue, cemetery, school and
shops and in the first part of the 18th century they set up their own Chevra Kadishah.
Chevra Kadishah is one of the most ancient Jewish institution. Its duty is to organize
funerals according to religious orders, and there were about 1300-1400 funerals here.
The terrible 20th century arrived and took everything important from the small
community. In 1930 there were 30 Jewish souls in Lovasberény and in 1944 they all
vanished, all the inhabitants became the victims of the Holocaust: they were executed in
the gas chambers of Auschwitz. There was nothing left of the once significant
community. The small synagogue was empty as a sad memento and then in 1949 it was
demolished.
In the year 2000, a decent man, Istvan Csíkvary, a vet, who was born in Lovasberény,
came to visit his home-village, and he was sad to find the cemetery abandoned. He
decided to set up a foundation for the cemetery. His thoughts were followed by actions,
and actions were followed by success. It seemed as if there was some help from up there:
doctor Csíkvary managed to collect a significant amount of money from which he could
set up more than 600 tomb-stones and a fence around the cemetery. The renovation of
the cemetery was also supported by MAZSIHISZ ( The Federation of Jewish
Communities of Hungary), the local government, the agricultural union of Lovasberény
and also in great proportion by the Catholic Conference in Germany.
The Jewish cemetery of Lovasberény, the resting place of about 1300-1400 people can
be visited again!
Extract of an interview
Students of the American Endowment School have been making interviews through the scope
of a European Union project with survivors of the Holocaust. The following extract is from one
of these interviews.
’Well, I can tell you this to remember that man. He wasn’t a Jew, he was just a wonderful
man. I can even remember his name. It was before 1944 but my father had been taken to
labour-service and my mother was left
alone. In came a young soldier, who
knew how hard
times we were having, and he was the
hero.’
Interviewer: ’Where were your parents
born? When and where did they die?’
‘My father, he died there. We were
freed on 4 May, 1945.That was the last
phase.
The camp was in the middle of a forest
and it was all mined. It
was a huge wooden camp. We slept
without bed-clothes.
And it is all decided up there. Because
G_d is the one who decides. The commandant of the
camp showed him that as the battle-line was coming closer whether they were Russians or
Americans – because only they could free us – he should have blown up the whole camp. He
was supposed to do so but he didn’t. He must have thought that if he didn’t do so, he could
stay alive and we could stay alive too, innocent people.
So we were freed on 4 May, 1945 and went into the small town and we were taken
there. As we were going on the main road, four children and two parents, people admired us.
They asked how we survived and if we could stay together. Four children and two parents.
They were admiring us. We were freed on 4 May and my father – may he rest in peace –
passed away on 25 May. He remained there, he is there. His tomb is there, he is buried there.
We visit his tomb if my sister Annuska comes from Canada – may G_d keep her – she
lives there and when she comes, we go there. The tomb is in a Catholic cemetary, we were
given a burial place there. About 1300 people are buried there, at least 80% of them
unmarked. Those who got to know that their relatives were there were allowed to …
We were allowed to bury them in a Catholic cemetary.
I must say, whenever we go there, it’s a marvellous thing. The cemetary is kept so tidy – I
don’t know who is responsible for it, whether it is the town or the caretaker of the cemetary,
but they keep it so wonderfully tidy and neat, you can’t see a stub anywhere. Now we had a
tombstone made for my father, only a modest one as big ones are not allowed.
Everybody who got to know that they have a relative or husband buried there – may they rest
in peace – had a small tombstone made.
The story of the Torah Scroll of Lovasberény
The Torah scroll was found somewhere near Lovasberény at the end of 1944. It was wrapped
around the leg of a Hungarian soldier to protect his wounded leg. He knocked on the door of
the father of our priest who was a priest himself and asked for some water. The priest offered
him a seat and saw that his leg was wrapped in some strange material. He noticed that the
piece of paper soaked in blood was covered with Hebrew letters. The priest told him that he
would give his own shirt instead of the Torah scroll to wrap his leg into and asked him to
hand the Torah scroll over to him. And that is how it happened. The soldier disappeared and
no one knows what happened to him. This piece of the Torah scroll remained with the priest
whose son showed it at the reopening of the cemetery. The scroll that consists only three
columns. Whenever I see something like this, I try to find out whether these extracts have a
message for us.
A short history about the Jews in Hungary
Jews have been living in Hungary since 11th century. In 19th Century some anti-
Semitic parties rose to power in Hungary. They suggested some laws that they wanted
to impose the Jews. But the laws never went through and the Jews fought on the Hun-
garian side in the First World War. Around 10,000 Jews died in World War I, how-
ever the Catholic Church in Hungary didn’t consider this sacrifice worthy of protect-
ing the Jews against the anti-Semitism that grew afterwards.
The Jews were the largest minority group in Hungary and most of them were inte-
grated into Hungarian society before the First World War. There were wealthy bank-
ers, intellectuals but also the majority who were poorer, industrial or rural workers.
Jews immigrated to Hungary from Poland, Galicia and other areas of central Europe.
There was a wide variety of social and religious backgrounds and economical factors
that make it difficult to say that there was a homogeneous group. However before the
Nazi took over, Jews made up over 23% of the population of Budapest.
The Catholic church in Hungary influenced policy affecting Jews negatively. Religious
anti-Semitism had existed for many centuries, in principle, ever since Christianity
began, and has been especially prominent in the Catholic Church.
The Hungarian Jews were not affected by the Holocaust as early as in many other
places such as Poland, but by 1938 Jews slowly but surely lost their rights. They were
publicly classed as a race and even before this, anti-Semitism was widespread in the
country, even if it not been as open and acknowledged. Anti-Semitism in Hungary
became more open and accepted as it was in the rest of Europe.
In 1939 Hungary introduced laws that came to resemble the Nuremberg Laws and in
1941, some years after the Jews' rights deteriorated, the first major assaults on Jews
began.
During World War II Hungary participated in the Axis powers, however the leaders
who ruled Hungary, refused to deport Jews from Hungary. Hitler eventually lost pa-
tience and the German troops occupied Hungary. That is why Jews were relatively
safe until 1944 when Germany took over Hungary. Horthy decision to discuss peace
with the Allies was another factor that made Hitler chose to march into Hungary.
That's where it got really difficult for the Hungarian Jews and mass murder begins.
Miklós Horthy was deposed after the country was taken over and the Jews were
forced into ghettos and the systematic extermination began in March 1944. More than
430,000 Jews from Hungary were deported during the months of May to July 1944,
most of them directly to Auschwitz and taken into the gas chambers.
The outside world protested when the deportations started, because they knew then
what happened at Auschwitz. In late 1944, the then government was aware of Soviet
encirclement of Hungary and the local bandits, who had power over all ghettos terror-
ize the Jews just as they had before, but sometimes even worse.
This continued until the Red Army marched into Budapest, liberating Hungary and
finally the Jews' suffering ended. Approximately 550,000 of Hungary's 825,000 Jews
had been murdered.
After World War II, Communism took over Hungary which improved conditions for
the vast majority of the country. Soon after terror factors to ensure political stability
were targeted against all citizens who opposed communist rule. The Soviet Union now
controlled in Hungary and a majority of the 120,000 Jews who survived the Holocaust
in Hungary left the country, with the help of, among other things, the white buses.
The white busses brought survivors to Sweden and saved many lives. However unfor-
tunately some of the survivors were in such bad shape that they didn’t live long
enough to enjoy their freedom and were buried in nameless graves such as in the
graveyard in Norrköping in Sweden.
However many more survived and created families who enriched Swedish Jewish life,
keeping the HungaThe outside world protested when the deportations started, be-
cause they knew then what happened at Auschwitz. In late 1944, the then government
was aware of Soviet encirclement of Hungary and the local bandits, who had power
over all ghettos terrorize the Jews just as they had before, but sometimes even worse.
This continued until the Red Army marched into Budapest, liberating Hungary and
finally the Jews' suffering ended. Approximately 550,000 of Hungary's 825,000 Jews
had been murdered.
A short history about the Jews in Hungary
By Sarah Beg, Stockholm, Sweden
I do not believe in any religion so this was quite interresting to ex-
perience.
I learned for example that jewish people all over the world know
at least some hebrew and that most jews sing food prayer songs.
They sing their songs on hebrew. Jewish men/boys wear small
hats called kippa. They wear them when they eat breakfast and
dinner. The very religious ones wear kippa all the time.
Most Jews go to a Jewish temple called synagogan. In the syna-
gogan girls need to wear long skirts, to cover their legs and shoul-
ders or alternatively girls can wear a dress. Boys can wear any-
thing but they do need to wear a kippa which girls do not need to
wear. In fact, girls never wear a kippa because they are not al-
lowed.
Rauol Wallenberg By: Amina and Klara from Stockholm, Sweden
Raoul Wallenberg (August 4, 1912 – July 17, 1947?) was a Swedish humanitarian who
worked in Budapest, Hungary, during World War II to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. Be-
tween July and December 1944, he issued protective passports and housed Jews in buildings
established as Swedish territory, saving tens of thousands of lives.
On January 17, 1945, he was taken into detention by the Soviets after they entered Budapest,
and was reported to have died on July 7, 1947 while in their custody. The circumstances of
his death have long been in question, with some disputing whether he died while in Soviet
detention.
In 1981, Congressman Tom Lantos, among those saved by Wallenberg, sponsored a bill
making Wallenberg an Honorary Citizen of the United States. He is also an honorary citizen
of Canada, Hungary, and Israel. Israel has also designated Wallenberg one of the Righteous
among the Nations. Monuments have been dedicated to him, and streets have been named
after him throughout the world. A Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States was
created in 1981 to "perpetuate the humanitarian ideals and the nonviolent courage of Raoul
Wallenberg". It gives the Raoul Wallenberg Award annually to recognize persons who carry
out those goals. A postage stamp was issued by the U.S. in his honor in 1997.
With the money raised by the board, Wallenberg rented 32 buildings in Budapest and de-
clared them to be extraterritorial, protected by diplomatic immunity. He put up signs such as
"The Swedish Library" and "The Swedish Research Institute" on their doors and hung over-
size Swedish flags on the front of the buildings to bolster the deception. The buildings even-
tually housed almost 10,000 people.
Wallenberg intercepted a trainload of Jews about to leave for Auschwitz.
Our Hungarian Experience
By: Jacob Cahn from Stockholm, Sweden
In the beginning no one knew each other, but when we left we were all
friends. When you carried those branches at the cemetery you could feel the
fellowship between us all, even though we came from different cultures and
different religions. From this journey to Hungary I take a lot of memories
with me home. For example: on one evening we had a gigantic waterfight.
The Swedish, Finish and Hungarian people divided into two teams and the
fight was on. We made little holes in our bottle-lids so that we could spray
water through that little hole. After the waterfight we were all wet. Not a sin-
gle person was dry I think. Another memory is pretty silly actually. We
played football on the first hostel in Velence yard. We were about three to
five people. Then suddenly someone accidentally shot the ball up ont the
roof. We left and pretended that it had never happend. On the breakfast the
day after the head of the security came into the dining hall and said:
- You, you, you and you! Come with me. And pointed to me and three other people that had been playing football the
day before. We went outside with him and he said: - That ball you were playing with, it’s got to be back before breakfast is over.
We had to carry a ladder to the roof where the ball disappeared and go up and
get it. It may seem a bit weird but it was a funny memory which I think I will
remember for a long it.
Teachers and technical staff of
American Endowment School
Bakos Judit
Boskovitzné Csernyánszky Katalin
Csáki András
Földvári József
Gubis Csaba
Jávor Judit
Klein Anita
Levi Dov
Paskesz Chava
Polonkainé P. Krisztina
Róna Artúrné
Steiner Oszkár
Sugár Sára
Szilágyiné Buzsáki Rita
Tóth Brigitta
Zaletnyik Anna
Zima András
További segítők: Fonó Róbert,
Bleier Gábor, Jäger László,
Kauteszky Laurel János, Rosen-
berg Ágnes, Kertes Mária, Szirmai
Anikó, Goldmann Kálmánné,
Hammermann Péter, Máté János
Teachers:
Pálóczi Enikő
Vörös Károly
Violeta Vladimirove
Helena Lewin
Ricky David
Tiina Tvlento Itzkovitz
Sheila Weintraub
Swedish Group:
Henrietta Cahn
Jacob Cahn
Amina Bradanc
Klara Lewin
Alfred Stenborg
Shai David
Elinor Sinita
Sarah Beg
Finnish Group:
Lia Goresh
Dekel Menashe
Jonatan Shaya
Saara Weintraub
Frida Mitzner
Bulgarian Group:
Daniela Dimitrova
Daniell Tahor
Aglaya Lenkova
Daniel Taig
Samuel Frances
Georgi Dimitrov
Teodor Todorov
Hunngarian Group:
Lefter Viktor
Török Marci
Lamperth Benjamin
Dudás Ferenc
Szöllősi Dávid
Forrai Tibor
Petrik Fanni
Vácz Kamilla
Ferenczy Anna
Berdefi Tünde
Vincze Gréta
Hagyó Katalin
Hagyó Zsuzsanna
Gömöri Lexi
Fejér Dóra
Zoványi Judit
Lakatos Petra