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| Member Since: | Wednesday, January 16, 2008 |
| Last Post: | Wednesday, January 16, 2008 |
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From the Rill to the Ocean My Journey to Freedom, Wednesday, January 16, 2008 @ 9:39:00 AM
Imre Kalanyos, the author of "From the Rill to the Ocean" was born in Hungary in 1941. The village of his birth Sivo, ruined during WWII and lter relocated on the flood plane of a little creek in a segregated area of Gordisa, vanished without a trace - and forever. The people of his village called themseves "Beash." They were known to most Hungarians as Gypsies.
In Hungary, discriminated against as a minority, he was disheartened. Disappointed by the Communist system's failure to integrate people of his community into Hungarian society, Imre, at age twenty-six, decided to escape from his native country and to seek Freedom and Equality in America.
Because it was illegal to leave the country,his escape was demanding and dangerous. On one hand, if caught during his planning stage of his escape, he would have faced imprisionment and would have been black-listed for life. On the other hand, if cought during his escape, he could have been killed. Aware of this but encoureged by Ady Endre's poem "From the Rill to the Ocean" Imre told himself, LIVE FREE OR DIE."
Please Join One Man's voyage to Freedom. To see more details about my book and the online awailability of it, please do a serch either by title or the author.
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From the Rill to the Ocean My Journey to Freedom, Wednesday, January 16, 2008 @ 9:39:00 AMImre Kalanyos, the author of "From the Rill to the Ocean" was born in Hungary in 1941. The village of his birth Sivo, ruined during WWII and lter relocated on the flood plane of a little creek in a segregated area of Gordisa, vanished without a trace - and forever. The people of his village called themseves "Beash." They were known to most Hungarians as Gypsies.
In Hungary, discriminated against as a minority, he was disheartened. Disappointed by the Communist system's failure to integrate people of his community into Hungarian society, Imre, at age twenty-six, decided to escape from his native country and to seek Freedom and Equality in America.
Because it was illegal to leave the country,his escape was demanding and dangerous. On one hand, if caught during his planning stage of his escape, he would have faced imprisionment and would have been black-listed for life. On the other hand, if cought during his escape, he could have been killed. Aware of this but encoureged by Ady Endre's poem "From the Rill to the Ocean" Imre told himself, LIVE FREE OR DIE."
Please Join One Man's voyage to Freedom. To see more details about my book and the online awailability of it, please do a serch either by title or the author.
Thanks.
kalanyosi