Thank you so much for posting this! I have been lurking for a few months, waiting to pose basically the same question. I am very interested in finding other Jews from Hungarian lands- and I don’t want to forget Romania, which also has a good chunk of the Carpathian mountains.
Jewish life was annihilated by waves of anti-semitism, and my guess you can find more Hungarian Jews here in Brooklyn than you can in the villages of Transylvania. I am especially concerned about preserving parts of their traditions, especially songs, foods and other parts of Jewish life that will get lost. Anyone who still remembers about life there is probably quite old, so I feel pressed for time to collect this. My guess is that people reading YeshivaWord are too young to have grown up in pre-WW II Hungary, but there are probably a lot of people here whose family comes from there.
I am also very distressed at the current government in Hungary which I consider unwelcoming (to put it mildly) to Jewry, and current government’s association with outright anti-semites is eclipsed by the violently anti-semitic Jobbik party. It’s truly frightening.
If anyone wants to contact me offline, please send me an email at BrooklynZsido {at} gmail [dot] com.
Getting back to the original post of this thread, here are some online resources about Hungarian Jews and the Holocaust:
http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/fht-wims-rosenthal-av-a01.htm
And just in time for Purim, here are some photos from a Purim Shpiele from Miskolc:
http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/pfh.miskolc_purim-shpiele.htm
I started reading an interesting book about the history of Jews in Miskolc, which might not be the area you were thinking about. I can’t find my link to the book at the moment, but here’s a relevant link: