The Budapest Times As Transport Minister János Lázár explained on Monday in Szikszó at the residents’ forum on the problems of the new M30 motorway between Miskolc and Szikszó the contractor Strabag has already been asked to repair it under the guarantee Lázár even threatened to expel Strabag from the country if the renovation does not progress as expected The M30 was built at a cost of 354 billion forints and the first technical defect occurred just six months after handover The 57 km section of the M30 motorway above Miskolc which leads to the Slovakian border and Košice a section of the motorway between Miskolc and Szikszó was closed by the operator MKIF Zrt on 17 February 2024 after the road structure shifted in several places over a length of 150 metres and the road surface cracked the renovation will take 10-11 months and the costs could reach around 5 billion forints Experts from the Technical University of Budapest have been called in to investigate the defects You must be logged in to post a comment PRIVACY POLICY TERMS OF USE 2007 - 2025 BZT MEDIA Kft. Design: GoOG Webdevelopment: diVid Forgot your password? You will receive mail with link to set new password Back to login By submitting the above I agree to the privacy policy and terms of use of JTA.org A Brazilian searching for his great-aunt found information about a cookbook author of the same name The “Seeking Kin” column aims to help reunite long-lost relatives and friends (JTA) – When Brazil native Fabio Rosenfeld brought up launching a search for his grandfather’s sister who had survived the Holocaust I opened my “National Geographic Atlas of the World” to locate her hometown of Reghin A week later, the surname and the area struck me as familiar, so back to the atlas I went. There was Reghin, in the Transylvania region of Romania and Hungary, near Cluj-Napoca, a town central to a “Seeking Kin” column about an old Hungarian-Jewish cookbook whose author was given as Mrs Fabio Rosenfeld emailed information he had just gleaned while searching for his great-aunt it dealt with the cookbook’s author possessing the same name A mention of that Aranka Rosenfeld in a cookbook by the eminent culinary authority Joan Nathan included a comment from Rosenfeld’s granddaughter An online search located Blumenberg living in Manhattan She was thrilled to be found and learn about Tara Lotstein woman who had bought Blumenberg’s grandmother’s work “A Jewish Woman’s Cookbook.” The purchase launched Lotstein’s search for several people “I was very touched and so surprised that her cookbook is [still] read and used filled in key information about her grandmother and lived mostly in Szikszo and Subotica until passing away in March 1981 “Aranka saw all her children die in her life,” Blumenberg said were observant Jews who owned a mill in Szikszo One of seven children (all but one of them girls) Aranka married Martin and they settled in Subotica where they owned a large hardware store and lived upstairs They returned to Subotica and during the Holocaust were incarcerated in its ghetto along with approximately 80 members of Aranka’s family was killed by the Germans in 1944 while fighting for a resistance movement Aranka and daughters Eva and Vera were incarcerated at a labor camp in Austria and survived the Holocaust moved to Israel and Hebraicized their surname to Orr They lived in Tiberias and Haifa and had three children: Reuven Vera died of breast cancer in her early 40s; her husband passed recently married a Jewish communist named Zoltan Biro and worked in Belgrade where Blumenberg and sister Judith were raised by then nearly devoid of its once-thriving Jewish community Their ornate synagogue couldn’t always draw 10 men for public prayers but Rosenfeld – “she came to services every Friday night,” Blumenberg recalled – would be counted in the minyan (quorum) with Subotica and Belgrade just over 100 miles apart which are crepes or blintzes,” Blumenberg said Blumenberg said Rosenfeld taught the sisters how to cook “We hung around her all the time when she was cooking,” Blumenberg said “She gave cooking classes in Subotica occasionally for young women – not Jewish women; there weren’t any.” Blumenberg has two of her grandmother’s original hard-covered cookbooks The books survived the Holocaust because a neighbor safeguarded some of the Rosenfelds’ possessions a Budapest publishing company reprinted the cookbook a decade ago although it removed Rosenfeld’s name as author Blumenberg said she hasn’t demanded that her grandmother receive credit also published two small Hungarian-language cookbooks in Israel presumably while visiting her daughter in the country’s early years The mention of Aranka Rosenfeld that would help “Seeking Kin” connect Blumenberg and Lotstein was contained in “Joan Nathan’s Jewish Holiday Cookbook.” “I’m thrilled,” Nathan said of her book’s role “Some people look at their recipes and wish they had something of their past When you find these threads – I’m just excited by that.” is happy about the search he unwittingly helped solve a kind of tzedakah without money,” he said “The real tzedakah is when you give something to someone you don’t know.” (Please email Hillel Kuttler at seekingkin@jta.org if you would like “Seeking Kin” to write about your search for long-lost relatives and friends Please include the principal facts and your contact information in a brief email “Seeking Kin” is sponsored by Bryna Shuchat and Joshua Landes and family in loving memory of their mother and grandmother JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent I accept the Privacy Policy Hungarian soft drink maker Hell Energy inaugurated an 80 billion forint (EUR 206.7 million) capacity expansion at its base in Szikszó The expansion will create 240 jobs, Péter Szijjártó The joint investment by Hell Energy and its canning unit, Quality Pack will enable the production of around 4 billion cans of beverage and 6 billion filled finished products The investment will strengthen Hell Energy’s position as market leader not only in Hungary Cyprus and Croatia and could further expand its export market currently consisting of over 60 countries and website in this browser for the next time I comment Y"},"category":false,"taxonomy":{"active":false,"name":"category"}},"markup":{"custom_html":true,"wpp-start":"","wpp-end":"<\/ul>","title-start":"","title-end":"<\/h2>","post-html":"{thumb} {title} {stats}<\/span>{excerpt}<\/p><\/li>"},"theme":{"name":""}} You have successfully joined our subscriber list SupportUs Newsletter © 2025 DailyNewsHungary | All rights reserved As one of the region’s key transport corridors it promised substantial economic and logistical benefits for nearby communities severe structural issues forced the closure of the section between Szikszó and Miskolc due to subsidence János Lázár, Minister of Construction and Transport, visited the site and sharply criticised Strabag. In his opinion, it was the company’s faulty workmanship that led to the problems that occurred. According to the minister the track had to be almost completely demolished to ensure its stability by reinforcing the supporting structure The redesigned section will be reinforced with iron piles which is expected to provide a long-term solution According to Telex, Strabag accepted responsibility and committed to covering the reconstruction costs estimated at HUF 4–5 billion (EUR 9.7–12.1 million) Originally slated for completion by January 2023 the reconstruction has faced multiple delays with the latest projections suggesting up to nine months before the road is fully restored Strabag has more than 86,000 employees and is active in several countries The company is one of the largest construction players in the region but the recent scandal in Hungary has highlighted quality issues that could seriously affect the company’s reputation Strabag has a strong track record in the European construction industry but the current case is a warning that there may be a significant gap between its track record and its current performance Lázár made it clear that they do not wish to cooperate with Strabag in the future as they do not consider the company’s work to be of sufficient quality the lesson to be learned from the case of the M30 motorway is that more stringent requirements should be applied when selecting contractors especially when they are foreign companies The Minister of Construction and Transport’s stance extends beyond this issue; he also advocates for banning foreign companies from operating in Hungarian retail markets The problems of the Miskolc motorway section have a significant impact not only from an economic but also from a social point of view The daily life of the local population is made more difficult by the diversion and traffic restrictions The success of such projects is not only a technical issue but also a social one as transport infrastructure has a direct impact on people’s quality of life In the midst of the scandal surrounding the M30 motorway, news broke that Strabag CEO Klemens Haselsteiner had died unexpectedly at the age of 44. According to an official statement from the company, his death was due to natural causes, which was later clarified by Kronen Zeitung to have been an aneurysm bleeding The father of the Austrian construction industry leader is one of the best-known figures in the Austrian construction industry and owns a significant shareholding in Strabag According to Index Klemens Haselsteiner graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in business administration and worked in various management positions within the Strabag Group He was CEO from January 2023 and one of his main objectives was to make the company climate-neutral cracks on it have become so bad that the operator has closed it for several months The section was built by the Austrian Strabag which has already been ordered by the Hungarian state to carry out the repairs According to the latest information from Útinform the restriction between the 33 Miskolc-North junction and the 40 Szikszó junction will be in force from 17 February to 17 August in both directions This means that for at least half a year motorists will not be able to drive on this stretch A video was also published on Világgazdaság taken just before the road was completely closed You can see how the road surface between the two lanes has slid away from each other in several places The news was confirmed to Világgazdaság by László Szimicsku He added that as operators they had maintained traffic as long as possible but the displacement had become so great that they had no choice but to close the road completely A 100-150 metre wide section of the track is sunken due to the displacement of its structure He pointed out that it will now almost certainly not be possible to travel on the closed section for many months as the entire structure may have to be rebuilt he pointed out that MKIF was not involved in the project all they could do was report the problem to the Hungarian state The M30 motorway was opened to traffic in October 2021 cost a total of HUF 200 billion (EUR 514 million) making it one of the largest projects of the previous EU cycle The whole project has been divided into three parts by the contracting authority with the now problematic 10.4-kilometre section between Miskolc and Szikszó being won by a consortium of Strabag Építő Ltd and Strabag AG for HUF 39.4 billion (EUR 101 million) has already called on the company to carry out the warranty restoration works according to the schedule