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...
Adrián Szász dr.
He can't hear the blows, they don't hurt him – Norbert Kalucza is the first Hungarian boxer to compete in the Olympics as a deaf person
As a child, he couldn't hear or speak, but he wanted to prove that he is as good as anyone. Roma and deaf-mute, he...
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
”It is important that they take on work and responsibility, in exchange for which we can help them” – We visited the Roma community in Rimóc
"Lóránt Vanya, coordinator for public employment, receives the “Presence” (“Jelenlét”) Award" - announced Szilárd Lantos, professional director of the Hungarian Charity Service of The...
Fanni Fekete
40-year-old Nick Vujicic adopts and makes a movie about Hungary
A few days ago, the motivational speaker of Serbian origin visited Hungary again to fill the Papp László Budapest Sport Arena. But Nick Vujicic...
Anna Bábi
Love and war for independence – the story of the first martyr of Arad and his wife’s was one for the books
An 18-year-old girl became the wife of one of the most talented officers of the 1848-49 War of Independence and the 87 days of...
Sára Pataki
“It's like you've gone to war” – HUNOR rescued 17 people from the rubble in Turkey
For almost a week, the HUNOR unit (Hungarian National Organization For Rescue Services) which consists of the country's most experienced professional firefighters, has been...
Júlia Légrádi
Sang all around the world, appeared in NBC’s Today Show – Gyöngyi Tóthné Bán, teacher for more than 30 years now
She is an English teacher at the Primary School in Balatonboglár, a marathon runner, a multiple Balaton swimmer, a mother of three, and last...
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...