Saving Jews with currant jam – The fascinating life story of the unjustly forgotten Géza Soos
To fly a stolen German plane over the front to the Allies, to save the lives of a dozen Jews and prisoners of war...
Andrea Csongor
The "Melbourne bloodbath", the revenge of the Hungarian water polo team – How we repaid the crushing of the '56 revolution
It would surely be difficult to find a connection between the sight of blood mixing with the pool water, the Olympic performance of our...
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
The 17-year-old Hungarian Lego designer, whose tabletop foosball is now available as a set by LEGO
There is no one in Hungary who wouldn't know what Lego is. The joy of building can fascinate even the youngest children, and after...
Andrea Csongor
”Professional musicians need nerves of steel and the physical condition of an astronaut” – There might be a lot of pain behind musical achievements
As early as 1959, Zoltán Kodály noticed that there were many health problems among musicians: tendonitis, tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow, spinal disorders, in other...
Adrián Szász dr.
"I see from my memories" – as a teenager, for Norbert Biró, Paralympic bronze medallist, everything got blurred
He started out as a promising junior national judo player, but at the age of 16 his eyesight began to deteriorate rapidly. As a...
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
"It is often the children who convince parents to go green" – an interview with State Secretary Attila Steiner
Even those who used to bury their heads in the sand are starting to feel the effects of climate change. Forest fires, flash floods...
Lívia Kölnei
How to survive the end of the Christian world? – The Benedict Option with Benedictine monk Gergely Bakos
One of the most thought-provoking books of recent times, it is both a utopia and a detailed survival guide to the rescue of Christian...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
"Hungarians still live, Buda still stands!” – a conversation with Government Commissioner Gergely Fodor on the renovation of the Buda Castle Palace
As Hungarians, we have many experiences of the Buda Castle. Class excursions, family visits, long studies in the Széchényi Library, exhibition experiences, performances in...
Adrián Szász dr.
‘God saved my life through my daughter’ – When adoption is a manifestation of love
‘I got pregnant when I was 17, I still went to high school. I didn’t plan my life that way, as soon as I...
Kriszta Csák-Nagy
"There is no life at the top" - Heights and depths with Hilda Sterczer, wife of Zsolt Erőss mountaineer
It has been more than eight years since the mountaineer Zsolt Erőss, known as the Hópárduc (Snow Leopard), failed to return from Kangchenjunga, one...
Krisztián Szabó
If we don't want to become America, where liberal democracy collapses into Marxism... - Israeli philosopher Yoram Hazony on the future of conservative thinking
" Conservatism: Return to the Basics" was the title of a lecture given in Budapest by Yoram Hazony, head of the Herzl Institute in...
Adrián Szász dr.
Her adopted daughter in Congo expects her back – Emese Balázs-Fülöp, the globetrotting Transylvanian photographer
She grew up in Gyergyóremete (Remetea) and always knew that she wanted to go to Africa one day. At the age of 22, she...
Kati Szám
Diána Ürge-Vorsatz: “Do I have the right to consume more but they don’t have the right to live?”
The recent past has been an unusual time for us all. It came with losses, lessons, and – although these are perhaps less obvious...
Csaba Németh
Not an idea out of the air – Interview with Dr Rita Somogyi, winner of the Transport Innovation Award
A young Hungarian engineer, Dr. Rita Somogyi, and her team have now brought a new and precise solution to the field of GPS-based support...
Villő Nagy
“I never longed to live abroad” – in conversation with Dezső Ránki, Artist of the Nation
Pianist Dezső Ránki is an outstanding figure in the world of music, both for his modesty and his talent. Last year, he was among...
Csák-Nagy Kriszta
“I am blessed in that my soul remains youthful.” – Father Fülöp, missionary of Belgian origin
At first sight, one wouldn’t guess that he is a priest – only when he's in a church wearing the chasuble. Instead, he is...
Lenke Fehér
“The fact is, you should be exterminated! – the fates of priests after 1956
In the wake of the crushing of the 1956 Revolution until late 1957, that is, in just over one year, nearly 20,000 people were...