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...
Pál Horváth
From a villa in Buda to a chicken coop on a farm – The life story of Zsigmond Széchenyi
„We are given imagination as compensation for what we are not, and a sense of humour as consolation for what we are.” ( Count...
Ildikó Gergely-Baka
Take care of the bird if it flies into your garden – an interview with Bence Máté
A couple of days ago in a Facebook group, undergraduate students tried to convince a 17-year-old not to go for social sciences, for „there...
Lívia Kölnei
Ildikó Gergely-Baka
Close to the heart of society - the launch of the Hungarian Women's Aid Service
On 13 June 1915, the National Stefania Association was founded to solve the great social challenges of the era, the high infant and maternal...
Adrián Szász dr.
"The Hungarian language is music to my ears" – sculptor Gyuri Hollósy takes care of his Hungarian roots in the US
He has never lived in Hungary, yet he speaks our language without an accent, and his Hungarian identity defines his life. Gyuri Hollósy was...
Pál Horváth
The person who founded a self-governing children’s society – the story of Gábor Sztehlo
Even today, Géza Radványi’s moving classic of post Second World War Hungarian filmmaking, Valahol Európában (Somewhere in Europe, 1947), is a popular movie. It’s...
Ágnes Jónás
“Making music is like pearl fishing: we reveal the pearls to the audience” – Flautett Flute Quartet
Their collective soul is woven from song, they are cheerful, dedicated and they understand each other almost without the need for words. They are...
Pál Horváth
Albert Apponyi: nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times
“For Hungary, choosing between accepting the peace treaty or refusing to sign it would be tantamount to having to ask itself if it should...
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
There is no prostitution without coercion
Research indicates that people are more vulnerable to prostitution in the current crisis caused by the virus as they are in times of natural...