Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1988. január-június (42. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)
1988-06-23 / 25. szám
Thursday, June 23. 1988. AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZO 11. Budapest Holocaust memorial planned A ground-breaking ceremony will take place in Budapest July 3 for the country's first public memorial to the 600,000 Hungarian Jews who perished in the Holocaust. The Hungarian Holocaust Victims and Heroes Memorial is being sponsored by the Emanuel Foundation for Hungarian Culture, founded here in 1986 to perpetuate the memory of the Hungarian Jewish Holocaust victims as well as to revitalize Jewish life among the approximately 80,000 Jews still living in Hungary. The Emanuel Foundation was named in honor of Emanuel Schwartz, father of actor Tony Curtis, who pledged his help in restoring Jewish sites in Hungary. Curtis will lead a delegation of Americans, many of them of Hungarian descent, on a 10-day visit beginning in late June. Among the sites that the delegation will visit will be Mátészalka, the town where Schwartz was born in the late 1880s. Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz in 1925 in New York. Curtis will tape a documentary of the tour, which will include visits to towns that were once filled with Jewish life. The delegation will also stop at a Jewish summer camp sponsored by the foundation in Balaton Ffired, about 80 miles from Budapest. Cantor Joseph Malovany of New York's Fifth Avenue Synagogue will conduct a concert of Jewish music at the Vigadó, Budapest's philharmonic hall; lead synagogue services in the Kazinczy Synagogue in Budapest; and offer memorial prayers at the ground-breaking ceremony. Andor Weiss, executive vice president of the foundation, said that the site that was chosen ' is a mass grave of 5,000 Jews from the Budapest ghetto, which was liquidated Jan. 18, 1945. Weiss said that the monument, designed by Hungarian sculptor Imre Varga, will consist of a tree in the shape of an inverted menorah, on whose leaves will be engraved the names of Hungarian Jewish martyrs. The memorial plaza will also have a special plaque in honor of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews, as well as others who helped to save Jews. Those interested in purchasing leaves or becoming a Memorial Builder should contact the Emanuel Foundation at 97-45 Queens Blvd., Suite 614, Rego Park, NY 11374, (718)896-8300. Health Foods Modern man is taking a growing interest in healthy eating and consequently in biofood, a novelty of recent tin\es. More and more people are looking for foods that are rich in vitamins and mineral salts, have high nutritive value and are prepared in a way as to retain the greatest possible amount of nutritive substances. This is the introduction to Edit Ranky's third book on the subject of healthy eating, entitled "Germ Plants in the Natural Kitchen." Edit Ranky is the nutrition counsellor of the Hungarian Natura GT organization that promotes biofood and healthy eating habits. The majority of 20^ century people are enjoying - or suffering from - the achievements and services of technology in all walks of life. If someone is constantly leading an extreme way of life the result will invariably be impaired health. Natural nutrition integrates the valuable features of conventional eating habits verified by the experiences of centuries and the findings of modern research into eating habits. Natura GT, an association formed exactly twenty years ago, aspires to help people develop healthy eating habits. It has set as its aim the introduction of organic biological growing cultures in Hungary, the processing of the produce in a natural way and the production and distribution of various means that promote the development of healthy eating habits and a healthy way of living. Natura GT has farm products produced and sees to their processing and wholesale and retail trading. It is a strict condition of production that the Natura products should be completely free from chemicals and fertilizers. Natura GT runs three shops, two in Budapest and one in Szombathely, Western Hungary. The company gets professional advice from Qualitree GmbH of the Netherlands. Even a casual glance will tell you that the natural kitchen is using far less basic materials of-animal origin than any other commonly accepted diet. Instead, its preference is for complete and unrefined cereals, some of them long forgotten, leguminous plants, oilseeds, preparations that contain valuable vegetable proteins, sea salt, natural sweeteners instead of beet sugar, spices and various raw materials prepared with some interesting new methods - says Edit Ranky. As a sample we give below a brief list of the most favored basic materials of the natural kitchen, including the rediscovered and very healthy soya products. Edit Ranky says in her book that man is growing basically seven types of grains including wheat, barley, rye, oats, rice, maize and millet. There are also some lesser-known varieties of these grains, such as wheat-barley, German wheat and buckwheat. Wheat is the grain that contains the highest amount of protein and gluten. It is processed into wheat flour, grits, flakes and dry vermicelli. Strengthening our nation’s commitment to families Our nation was built by strong families. Every family is unique. Yet we all have common needs. Under the banner of 'Strengthening Our Nation's Commitment to Families,' the American Family Celebration will demonstrate the demand for a comprehensive national policy to strengthen working families and elevate those concerns to the '88 campaign agenda. Why is a governmental policy needed? Consider: Fact: About 53 percent of children under age six had mothers in the labor force in 1987, including 50 percent of those who were one-year-old or under - a dramatic increase over the past decade. But there is no nationwide policy for providing and regulating quality, affordable child care. Of the 25 million children age 13 and under, only 1.5 million are cared for in child care centers. Parents pay an average of $3,000 per year for even inadequate care - half the income of a minimum wage family. Fact: Thirty-seven million Americans have no health insurance at all, and their ranks are swelling by an alarming one-million a year. Yet there is no nationwide policy for providing all Americans access to affordable health care. Fact: More than 32 million Americans are living in poverty. Many of those families are "working poor" - people who work but do not earn enough to rise above the poverty line. Although the U.S. economy has produced 20 million new jobs in the past decade, 7 out of 10 of them were in entrylevel, low-wage categories. Forty- four percent of net new jobs created between 1979 and 1984 paid under 7,000 a year. Yet the federal minimum wage - currently $3.35 per hour - hasn't been improved since 1981. Fact: Nearly a fifth of the workforce lacks a high school education, and an Indiana University survey estimates that people who are functionally illiterate make up as much as 20 percent of the workforce. Yet in 1987, the Reagan Administration proposed that approximately 43 percent of the proposed cuts for the entire federal budget be taken from education. Hungary Chief to Visit U.S. BUDAPEST, June 8 (Reuters) — The new Hungarian Communist Party leader, Karoly Grosz, will visit the United States next month, Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead said today. Popular industrial artist Julianna Kapitány, working at Kaposvár, South-western Hungary, is the only female master potter in Hungary.
