Six water tour ideas – Discover Hungary from the water
If you've ever sat in a canoe, kayak, or stood on a SUP board, you've probably noticed how different the world is from the...
Sára Pataki
Learning a new language at the age of 92 – Kató Lomb, one of the world's first simultaneous interpreters
She struggled with German as a child, but a few decades later, a Russian-English dictionary she found in a resale shop sealed her fate...
Krisztián Pomichal
”Like the slave market in the colonies” – Gyula Patasy’s vivid memories of the deportation
If you are lucky enough to live for seven or eight decades, you are bound to suffer the inevitable consequences of history. Among the...
Sára Pataki
Tibor Baranski – The “Hungarian Schindler”, who saved thousands of Jews from death
During the Second World War and the Holocaust, in Budapest, a 22-year-old Catholic priest student saved thousands of Jewish women, children, and men from...
Sára Pataki
"It’s a bit of a miracle that these communities have kept the language, the culture" – the advent trip of young people of Hungarian origin from South America
Camila's parents are Hungarian, but she grew up in Argentina. David's mother is Hungarian and his father is Colombian, and while they live not...
Anikó Wéber
”At the moment of Jesus' birth, the Lake Balaton came to be” – the magic of Christmases past
There were many Christmas customs and traditions in 19th-century Hungary, which are still kept by many families today. What are they? How did young...
Kati Szám
How Katalin Novák is preparing for Christmas and New Year – "I always strive to be truly present where I am"
Advent, Christmas, and the end of the year bring extra joy and extra things to do. We asked Katalin Novák , President of the...
Adrián Szász dr.
”Someone from above writes into my script” – Oscar-winner Ferenc Rófusz sent a message with The Fly: we'll get hit on if we buzz too much
Ferenc Rófusz, the animation filmmaker and creator of the first Oscar-winning Hungarian animation film (The Fly, 1981), recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award at...
Lívia Kölnei
Women and men in a new world “Tolerate each other with love!”
Perhaps we, women and men, truly are starting to build a new world. We don’t know what will happen after the pandemic, but in...
Kati Szám
Dániel Gryllus “In my life, the final forms have always been defined by human relationships”
Dani is one of those people with whom it is impossible not to sit down with and chat. He turns towards you with such...
kepmas.hu
A deathcamp operated after 1945 in the area of today’s Bratislava – Film about the Ligetfalu massacre
Directors Dávid Géczy and Zoltán Udvardy have made a documentary film titled Genocide in Pozsonyligetfalu about the terrifying events that took place there. In...
Nóra Ivády
“As far as I am concerned, there are no ‘lesser’ dead and ‘greater’ dead, there are only people” – Interview with forensic anthropologist Dr. Éva Susa
The work of forensic pathologist Dr. Éva Susa has given more than 100 families the opportunity of closure in a worthy manner for their...
Lívia Kölnei
Kati Szám: “It is impossible to untangle whether Képmás changed us or we changed Képmás”
For 15 years, Kati Szám has been editor in chief of the magazine Képmás, which through its unique content, refined style and traditional European...