This is the story of Iosefciuc and LAZIN families, how the Cold War has divided us; we were raised in two different systems (socialist and capitalistic) but our intellectual, and 'blood' connection has never stopped, despite the sufference and politicization during Ceasuescu's dictatorship in Romania.
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Myfamilys Genealogy
1.
2.
3. Octavian
From: quot;Dr. Olga Lazinquot; <olazin@ucla.edu>
Subject: Grandma Magdalena Iosefciuc, would be 78 years old today, she was born on
may 6th.
Cc: carotzi, dana, cedrechi, familia
Bcc: mold, geluv, caroline
This journal is dedicated to the memory of my mother, IOSEFCIUC MAGDALENA,
born in TRIP-OAS (near Bixad) in may 1931, September, in TRIP, Tara Oasului, Satu-
Mare County, in Romania. That is where our grandparents had a house, near the train rail.
Our grandfather IOSIF was a train mechanic(who came from Mukachevo, Ukraine) and
grandmother FEDAK Zsofi Borbala (of Hungarian ancestry), was a homemaker. Fedak
Sari was disowned by her parents for having married a Ruthenian, Iosefciuc. They had a
big house which we visited with Alex, my brother and his children, Octavian and
Carolina in the summer of 1999. Unfortunately, a big flood came, and they both caught a
cold, and died, as there was no
My mother has been stolen when she was 3 years old from the burial site of my
grandmother by a Czech couple that could not have children. My mom was the smallest
child in the family, she had other 3 siblings; LASZLO, ANA, the biggest sister, and
Ileana. Laszlo decided that he is going to find Magdalena, and crossed multiple borders
including Czekia (back then this territory encompassing Sighet and Ukraine, part of
Czechia was called Ruthenia), tracking down the couple who stole my mom. In those
days people leaved in more tight neat communities, and knew more about each other, so
in 3 years he found my mom, after long inquires and describing how my mom looked as a
child.
He brought her home, and all siblings were raised by one rich family. My mom told me
how that Czech couple would not feed her, unless she asked for food in Czech language.
Also she reminisced how she was wearing Ana's used shoes to school. Admirably, she
was the only one to have completed graduate school of Forestry in Sighet in 1964.
I was born in 1963. Maybe that is why I always loved school. As she was traveling with
work in Viseu de Sus, in Maramures County, she met dad, Eugen Lazin, who was
completing military school. That is where Eugen proposed to my mom.
Early in my childhood she told me that she had a nightmare before getting married to
him; she was dreaming of a toad jumping from outside through the window into her
room. And soon after I was born, and in another 2 years, my brother Alex, in April 16th,
1965. now all my ancestors are buried in the Catholic cemetery, in Sighet. Laszlo had one
of his limbs cut off by a train, as he was a train chauffeur, coming back from the Ukraine.
Even with one limb, he was the best chess player in Sighet, where he opened a gambling
house, in his own place. He was a heavy smoker, and died in 1995. His wife, Magdalena,
sold the place and shared the money with my mom, and aunts, Ana, and Ileana
respectively.
Unfortunately mother Magdalena died in September 21-2000 in Sighet, at her apartment,
on Vasile Alecsandri.
4. My FATHER’s SIDE: LAZIN & Papp
On my father's side, my grandparents were LAZIN AUGUSTIN, AND PAPP MARIA in
Vetis, 27 Km from Satu-mare the city I was born in. Augustin was a HUSZAR in Franz
Joseph’s Army (The Austro-Hungarian Emperor) in the 1900s. he gave my grand pa a lot
of horses and Koronas for his service.
Papp Maria was from Nyiregyhaza, HU, a homemaker. She died in 1965 at the age of
1065, same year when my brother was born in Sighet. My mom moved down to Satu-
mare, so that my grandparents could take care of me.
She behaved awfull with my mother, and all peasants (farmers) relatives hated her for
being an intellectual (an acoountant), in Satu Mare. I only remember my grandfather
singing to me, while leaning over me, and I was sitting on his knees. He lived to be 98
years old.
EUGENE was born in August 28, 1933, in Vetis. He HAD 5 OTHER SIBLINGS. The
eldest brother is Nicholas, who left for CANADA in 1947, when the Russians invaded
vetis. He has two children, now parents themselves; STEVE and CAROLINE. The other
one was Ioan Lazin, with wife, a huge big-headed women, almost double my uncle's size,
whom I visited in 2005, with my father, in Vetis, satu-mare, on my way to Hungary.
They have 2 kids, Viorel and Janika.
Viorel's first child is a girl, Erzsike I baptized when I was 26 years old. She later got
married in 2000 to a gipsy, and has 2 children. They live in Vetis. They are all alive and
well in Vetis,
The other siblings of my dad, were TRAIAN, who was a carpenter in Satu-Mare, and
Augustin (a shoemaker) who are both dead now.
Traian's daughter Elizabeth (Erzsike) is still alive in Satu-Mare, she is a librarian and has
a nice boy. She lives on Chendi street nr. 91, in Satu-Mare.
Augustin's son, Peter Lazin lives in Budapest, with his Hungarian wife, and a daughter.
Nicholas's son is STEVE LAZIN.
Tel. # STEVE LAZIN ori Istvan; he is a drummer and band leader in Vancouver.
1 604 675 9205.
adresa; 5-942 VICTORIA DR,
VANCOUVER, B.C.
CANADA
V5L 4E9
My 1st birth certificate was taken away by the floods of 1964, so mom Magdalena got
another one, with the explicit help of KEGYE ELLLA, her best friend in Satu-mare,
where she lived for a while, trying to get away from Vetis. She then moved to Sighet,
where her sister Ileana helped her to raise us, and got a house from the local authorities,
5. her ex College colleague ZACHARANSKY IBOLYA AND HUSBAND who were in the
local City Council.
That is how we ended up living in a block of flats, in a typical socialist buildings, in
cramped quarters with people like Ardeleanu, Bozsi neni, Spasiuk, and other refugees
from the deluge. It was awesome. We had a nice childhood with my little brother, Alex.
We had been always protecting each other ever since.
I later passed an exam in Baia-Mare and studied Pedagogy and English (Philology, the
Science of languages).
I graduated with laurels. Continuing my education, at the University of Babes-Boljay,
best University in the heart of Transylvania, I finally graduated in English Language and
Literature in the summer of 1991.
Before I left Romania, in 1991 in September, I have baptized Octavian Lazin,
Alexandru's son. Soon Carolina was born.
Nowadays I am having a dialogue with him, via e-mail on Chinese products, and why
China is in crisis. Including Mexico.
Here is a sample of our conversation; Hello Octa & Caro--
Why are Chinese stats un-reliable? And chinese products trashy & poisonous?
I have joined today CHINA CLUB on XING, to find out other people's opinion.
Dearest one;
ref
quot;I am aware of what you are saying BUT the Gross Domestic Profit reports (GDP)
suggest the opposite and they are quiet reliable when it comes to economy, they actualy
set the economy up for failure!quot;
LOTS OF LOVE, MATUSIKA WAITING FOR YOU TO COME!
post; http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/announcement.html?
gpp=10531&pst=1181740&posts=&saved=1
, Have you had a look at a GDP report??
love OCTA AND FAMILY
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:39:08 -0800
To: oz_4eva@hotmail.com
My dearest Octa;
Who drove the car into the ditch?
6. China, prediction was made on bases that the world economy will be expanding, but the
world economy has to recover to be the market for China, which will NOT HAPPEN,
unless the world economy will fully recover If there is a recession in all the world,
INCLUDING China, how can china dominate? It has nobody to sell to. It has laid off 50
MILLION WORKERS, it has no internal market, beyond a narrow wealthy few. How
can they (China?), if there is a recession in USA, and Europe, Latin America, and Asia,
and there is no market, China has no place to sell? We have an upheaval here against
chinese products; they are unsafe, and toxic. Nobody buys Chinese toys or food in the
U.S. any more. All is well in Kansas City. Gastion loves you too. Missing you. LOVE
tushika,
OCTAVIAN: hi olga, Hanneke and her family are on holiday at the moment in Swedan
but I wil ask her for the cappuchino recepi when she comes back next sunday, yes at the
moment the U.S remains the leading economy but what do you think about the GDP
reports for 2020 and so on? with economy falling into a recession for both US and
Europe what implications do you think China have if they will be the top economic
leaders in 2020 as predicted by GDP??? I enjoyed your stay here, love Octa and family
--
About Ruthenia, some historical background;
Rusyns from Transcarpathia in stage folk-costumes from Central Ukraine can be seen on
Wikipedia.
The name Ruthenia has any connection to the name Rus, it is in the west generally held to
derive from the Varangians whom the early Slavic and Finnic tribes called Rus' and this
name is derived from the Old Norse root ro_s- or roths- referring to the domain of rowing
and still existing in the Finnish and Estonian names for Sweden, Ruotsi and Rootsi. Later
the name came to denote not only the Scandinavian aristocracy in Eastern Europe but
also the ethnically mixed population of their domains.
“The term Ruteni first appears in the form rex Rutenorum in the 12th-century Augsburg
annals. It was most likely a reflex of the ancient tradition, when the barbaric people were
called by the names found in Classical Latin authors, i.e. Danes were called Daci and
Germans were called Theutoni.
Likewise, the Rus passed by the name of Ruteni, the form being influenced by one of the
Gallic tribes mentioned by Juliu Caesar.1
There is a 12th-century Latin geography from France which says that quot;Russia is also
called Ruthenia, as you may see from the following phrase of Lucan…quot; The original
Latin text: “Polonia in uno sui capite contingit Russiam, quae et Ruthenia, de qua
Lucanus: Solvuntur flavi longa statione Rutheni.”
Moreover, ‘by the end of the 12th century, the word Ruthenia was used, among the
alternative spelling Ruscia and Russia, in Latin papal documents to denote the lands
formerly dominated by Kiev. By the 13th century, the term became the dominant name
for Rus' in Latin documents, particularly those written in Hungary, Bohemia, and Poland.
From 1840 on the term quot;Little Rusquot; for Ukrayina and quot;Malorosyquot; for Ukrainians began to
fall out of fashion. In the 1880s and 1900s, the popularity of the ethnonym Ukrainian
1
From Wikipedia, quoated. Ruthenia.
7. spread and the term quot;Ukrainequot; became a substitute for quot;Rutheniaquot; among the Ruthenian/
Ukrainian population of the Russian Empire. In time the term quot;Ruthenianquot; became
restricted to western Ukraine, an area then part of the Austro-Hungarian state.
By the early 20th century, the term quot;Ukrainequot; had replaced quot;Rutheniaquot; in
Galicia/Halychyna and by the mid 1920's also in the Ukrainian diaspora in North
America.
2. Rusyns
The term Rusyn is referring to ethnicity and language of Ruthenians who did not embrace
the Ukrainian national identity.
After 1918, the name quot;Rutheniaquot; became narrowed to the area south of the Carpathian
mountains in the Kingdom of Hungary, Carpathian Ruthenia (It incorporated the cities
of Mukachevo, Uzhhorod and Preov) and was populated by Carpato-Rutenians), a group
of East Slavic highlanders.My stock xame from: “Galician Ruthenians considered
themselves to be Ukrainians, and the Carpatho-Ruthenians were the last East Slavic
people that kept the ancient historic name (Ruthen is a Latin deformation of the Slavic
rusyn).” Iosefciuc that is, my grans pa, on mom’s side.
Carpatho-Ruthenia was of the Hungarian Kingdom since the late eleventh century, where
it was known as Kárpátalja. May 1919 it was incorporated with nominal autonomy into
Czechoslovakia. After this date, Ruthenians have been divided among three
orientations. : there were the Russophiles, who saw Ruthenians as Russian; second there
were the Ukrainophiles who, like their Galician counterparts across the Carpathian
mountains, considered Ruthenians part of the Ukrainia; and there were Ruthenophiles,
who said that Carpatho-Ruthenians were a separate nation, and who wanted to develop
a native Rusyn language and culture. In 1939, the Ukrainophile president of Carpatho-
Ruthenia, Avhustyn Voloshyn, declared its independence as Carpatho-Ukraine. On 15
March 1939, Hungarian Army regular troops again crossed into Czechoslovakia, now the
state of Carpatho-Ukraine. The Hungarian occupation regime was pro-
Ruthenophile[citation needed]. In 1944, the Soviet Army occupied Carpatho-Ruthenia,
and in 1946, annexed it to the Ukrainian SSR. Officially, there were no Rusyns in the
USSR. In fact, Soviet and some modern Ukrainian politicians, as well as Ukrainian
government claim that Rusyns are part of the Ukrainian nation. Nowadays the majority of
the population in the Zakarpattya oblast of Ukraine consider themselves Ukrainians,
however, a small Rusyn minority is still present.
A Rusyn minority also remained after World War II in northeastern Czechoslovakia (now
Slovakia). The people of the region rapidly became Slovakicised, because their language
is closely related to the Slovak language and because most of them refused to identify
themselves as Ukrainians, as the Communist government, after 1953, wished them to do
[1].
The name quot;Rutheniaquot; became largely identical with Carpathian Ruthenia[citation
needed], that is mostly the westernmost region of present-day Ukraine.[1] It was
sometimes referred to as Carpatho-Russia before the fall of the Soviet Union.
Cognate word;
The element ruthenium was isolated in 1844 from platinum ore found in the Ural
mountains. Ruthenia is the Latin word for Rus.
8. Source; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthenia”
During my grandfather's life his family fled from Mukachevo during and after the wars
to Romania, Bixad,
I would like to and plan top visit Mukachevo's town hall.
Furhtermore, “In 1919, after the American-Rusyns agreed with Tomá_ Masaryk to
incorporate Carpathian Ruthenia into Czechoslovakia, the whole of Carpathian Ruthenia
was occupied by Czechoslovak troops. On June 4, 1920, Mukachevo officially became
part of Czechoslovakia by the Treaty of Trianon. In November 1938, a part of the
territory of the former Kingdom of Hungary was re-annexed by Hungary as part of the
First Vienna Award. In 1944, the city's Jewish population was deported to concentration
camps under Nazi Germany. Mukachevo was then the only town in Hungary with a
Jewish majority until 1944, when all the Jews were deported to Auschwitz by the
Eichmann Commando. The Hungarian Jewish community was the last Jewish community
in Europe to be subjected to deportation, and then only partially.
In the end of 1944, the Red Army stormed Carpathian Ruthenia (at that time part of
Czechoslovakia again) and the territory became part of the Soviet Union by a treaty
between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union of 1945. The Soviet Union began a policy
of expulsion of the Hungarian population. In 1945, the city was ceded to the Ukrainian
SSR (now Ukraine). In 2002, Mukachevo has been the seat of the Roman Catholic
diocese comprising Transcarpathia.
Demographics
According to the 2001 census, the population of Mukachevo included:
Ukrainians (77.1%)
Russians (9.0%)
Hungarians (8.5%)
Germans (1.9%)
Roma (1.4%)
Some Jewish community ( within the Hasidic dynasty)
“ Orthodox Church in Mukachevo
There are documents in the Berehove State Archives which indicate that Jews lived in
Munkács and the surrounding villages as early as the second half of the seventeenth
century. The Jewish community of Munkács was an amalgam of Galician & Hungarian
Hasidic Jewry, Orthodox Jews, and Zionists. The town is most noted for its Chief Rabbi
Chaim Elazar Spira who led the community until his passing in 1937.”
“By 1851 Munkacs supported a large yeshiva, thereby demonstrating the community's
commitment to Talmudic learning and piety.
9. Materially impoverished, yet wealthy in ideological debate, the Jews of interwar
Munkacs constituted almost half of the town's population. The Munkacs Jewish
community was famous for its Hasidic activity as well as its innovations in Zionism and
modern Jewish education.[4]”
The Jewish population of Munkacs grew from 2,131 in 1825 to 5,049 in 1891 (almost 50
percent of the total population) to 7,675 in 1910 (about 44 percent). By 1921, the 10,000
Jews still made up about half the residents, though by 1930, the proportion had dropped
to 43 percent, with a little over 11,000 Jews. The Jews of Munkacs constituted 11 percent
of the Jewry of Subcarpathian Rus.[4]
Interwar Munkacs had a very large Jewish population, which was most visible on the
Shabbat. On that day most stores were closed and, after services, the streets filled with
Hasidic Jews in their traditional garb. The first movie house in the town was established
by a Hasidic Jew, and it too closed on the Shabbat and Jewish holidays.[4]
The Chief Rabbi of Munkacs, Rabbi Chaim Elazar Spira (who led the community from
1913 until his death in 1937) was the most outspoken voice of religious anti-Zionism. He
had succeeded his father, Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Spira, who had earlier inherited the mantle of
leadership from his father Rabbi Shlomo Spira. He was also a Hasidic rebbe with a
significant number of followers.
Along with the dominant Munkacser hasidic community there co-existed smaller yet
vibrant hasidic groups who were followers of the rebbes of Spinka, Zidichov, and
Vizhnitz. By the time of the Holocaust there were nearly 30 synagogues in town, many of
which were shtiblech (quot;[small] housequot; - small [Hasidic] synagogues).
The Hebrew Gymnasium was founded in Munkacs five years after the first Hebrew
speaking elementary school in Czechoslovakia was established there in 1920. It soon
became the most prestigious Hebrew high school east of Warsaw. Zionist activism along
with chasidic pietism contributed to a community percolating with excitement, intrigue
and at times internecine conflictIn 1939, the Hungarians seized and annexed
Subcarpathian Rus -- including Munkacs -- taking advantage of the dismemberment of
Czechoslovakia. Though antisemitic legislation was introduced by the Hungarian
authorities, Subcarpathian Rus, like the rest of Hungary, remained a relative haven for
Jews until Germany occupied Hungary in 1944.[4]
In the spring of 1944 there were nearly 15,000 Jewish residents of the town. This ended
on May 30, 1944 when the city was pronounced Judenrein (free of Jews after
ghettoization and a series of deportations to Auschwitz).
Today, Mukachevo is experiencing a Jewish renaissance of sorts [5] with the
establishment of a supervised kosher kitchen, a mikva, Jewish summer camp in addition
to the prayer services which take place three times daily. In July 2006, a new synagogue
was dedicated on the site of a pre-war hasidic synagogue with the attendance of hundreds
of local Jews from the Transcarpathia region and a delegation of 300 Hasidic Jews from
the United States, Israel and Europe headed by the spiritual leader of Munkacs Hasidic
Jewry, Rebbe Moshe Leib Rabinovich, who currently resides in Brooklyn, New
York[6].”
The Palanok Castle in Mukachevo (14th century).
Palanok Castle, 14th century. The castle of Munkács played an important role during the
anti-Habsburg revolts in this territory and present-day Slovakia (1604-1711), especially
10. at the beginning of the anti-Habsburg Revolt of Imre Thököly (1685-1688), as well as at
the beginning of the revolt of Ferenc II. Rákóczi (early 18th century). This important
fortress became a prison from the end of the 18th century and was used until 1897. The
Greek national hero Alexander Ypsilanti was imprisoned in Munkács castle from 1821 to
1823”.
From Wikipedia.
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