Beyond the Óperencia — The Story of a Girl from Nyíri Who Found a New Home Among Hungarian Americans - Hungarian Conservative

Beyond the Óperencia — The Story of a Girl from Nyíri Who Found a New Home Among Hungarian Americans - Hungarian Conservative

The following is an adapted version of an article written by Lázár Pap, originally published in Hungarian in Magyar Krónika. America—the new world, the land of opportunity, the land of the free. In the 19th and 20th centuries, hundreds of thousands of Hungarians left their former lives behind to cross the Atlantic and try their luck Far Far Away, that is, ‘Beyond the Óperencia’, as Hungarian fairy tales go. In its series, Magyar Krónika looks at…