THE HUNGARIAN GIRL by: Drew

Dedicated to Fae and Jack Glick

Hungary is a land of many diverse cultures and has great sights to see. That is the reason my great-great grandmother did not want to leave….

Hungary has a good economy, history, and interesting culture, which is fun to learn about. Their culture starts 2,050 years ago where their native language, Magyar, started. 88.6% of the people of Hungary speak that language that started about 2,050 years ago, along with the symbol of the agricultural land, its flag which has horizontal stripes of red white and green. Also, it is a very musical land which shows talent in many instruments (They are very good at the Cello) (World book).

Heroes Square in Budapest

As I said, Hungary is a very agricultural place. Most of their income is made by growing crops. And that leads on to their two greatest resources: fertile soil and a very comfortable climate which is great for growing crops. Besides that Hungry has a very good air force with 45,000 men and women. Hungary also has a talent in making guns and sells a lot of them to Israel. Hungary once had an industrial revolution in the 1920s that made a lot of arms. (Hungary book) Still, Hungary is not one of the richest countries in the world (World book).


A View of Budapest

The capital of Hungary is Budapest. Budapest is a beautiful city that has marvelous fountains of lime stone. 2,000 years from now was the beginning of the city, when the native Hungarians took their land back from the Mongol tribe and allied with other countries around it to make the Ottoman Empire. But the Ottoman Empire didn’t go to well in Hungary and it became a dictatorship until World War One (Hungary book). That is why my great-great grandmother moved to America.

In September, 1855 Rose Solomon stepped out of the salt smelling boat to set foot on the new land she had traveled three months to get to. Three months of nothing to eat but bread, cheese and raw onions which made her stomach hurt. The four-year old Hungarian girl held her mother’s hand for safety. It seemed very easy to get lost in a crowed dock full of immigrants and fishermen trying to sell the same product. Rose and her family moved because they did not make enough money growing crops in the fields. And also there was a dictatorship at the time. The dictatorship was not just made of one person, it was an entire government.

Rose and her family’s journey started when her parents told her that they were moving to a new land, America. Rose did not know what immigration was at the time because she was four.
Her family did not make enough money growing and harvesting crops in the fields. So they signed permission to go on a boat. One day their boat arrived and they hopped aboard the ship which also carried other immigrants who wanted to escape the evil government. Rose and her mother and father carried very little items on the boat all they carried where two changes of clothes for each, a pocket knife and food. Three months later they made it to America.

About ten years later Rose knew nothing of the English vocabulary she couldn’t speak to any people in her school. The worst part was that she did not make a lot of friends. She didn’t really care. Every day Rose would come home and practice her studies. As you can tell she worked very hard on the things she wanted to master. Two years past and Beatrice got out of school when she was sixteen. After that she a new life.

In 1867 Rose got married to Jonathan Kleinberger when she was seventeen, had three children and died in 1911. She did not get a job because at that time women did not get jobs. Their children had two children named Ethel, my aunt and Fae, my grandmother. And now I remember my great-great grandmother as a hero of my family who took a risk and came to a new land, America.