We congratulate editor Dr. Walter Dujmovits and staff for achieving this milestone of the Burgenländische Gemeinschaft magazine. Having recently cele-
brated the BG 50th anniversary, they’ve published in excess of eight copies a year for 50 years, quite an achievement! Taken together they form the first archive of Burgenland „Auswanderer“ Material. This edition’s feature article concerns another 50th anniversary, that of the Hungarian „freedom fight“ of 1956. Over 200K people eventually were forced to flee Hungary, most came through the Burgenland, aided by the inhabitants. Many eventually emigrated to the Americas and now form a large Hungarian ethnic group. A great story and one that survives through this publication. The BG Magazine may be read or ordered by going to:
www.burgenlaender.com/BG
BG membership is available from the same source.

Parts of the BG Magazine are now written in English (including articles by your editor and Walter Dujmovits, Jr.). This change was a promise made to me in 2001 by Dr. Dujmovits. We both hoped it would be well accepted by the younger generation which may not know German. Pictures of Burgenland ethnic events and families worldwide are included and can’t be found anywhere else. I keep my copies of the BG News for reference, but only have copies from 1993. A query to one of the BG staff will always supply an answer. Some of the serialized articles such as Immigrant Villages, American Cities of Burgenland Settlement, Burgenland Food (Kochsezepte), ethnic clubs and organizations, then and now pictures of villages and events, etc. form a vast resource of material pertaining to the Auswanderung. This magazine remembers our immigrant ancestors and relatives and their memories will live on through the efforts of both the Burgenland Bunch News and the Burgenländische Gemeinschaft Magazine.

Do you want to know who the first immigrant was from your village of origin? Do you want a recipe for a Burgenland specialty? Do you want to be advised of new Burgenland books being published? Would you like the words and music to a Volks song? Do you want to know what is happening in a foreign Burgenland enclave? See the BG Magazine. Just a few of the many items found in every issue of the BG Magazine. I eagerly anticipate its appearance in my mail box.
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You can still order a free English Language 50 Years BG Festschrift, but time is getting short.


G. J. Berghold, Burgenland Bunch <GBerghold@aol.com>, Editor BB News