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...
Jámbor-Miniska Zsejke
Hungarian inventor wins! – We asked Dániel Váczi about the international competition for musical instrument inventors
With his first place and People’s Choice, the Hungarian contestant was the absolute winner of the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition for instrument inventors in...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
“The muscovite comes, he trashes the German, and then we get it”
So our family has its own historical knowledge of the Russians.
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
What are we doing in space? – an interview with Orsolya Ferencz
It seems as if the Hungarian public received the seemingly exotic news that our country's national space strategy had been completed and that we...
Ágnes Bodonovich
”She thanked me for helping her to became a mother” – an interview with Edit Frivaldszky
Edit Frivaldszky is one of the best-known figures in the field of life and family protection, who has been helping mothers in distress for...
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
We went to the Ukrainian-Hungarian border – ”The desire to give has not diminished”
Barabás is on the Hungarian-Ukrainian border, Papos about forty kilometers away. Although we don't hear much in the news about these smaller villages closer...
Fanni Fekete
”I am afraid if I left home, I would have nowhere to return to”
The Ukrainian-Russian war has caused great fear among the Hungarians in Ukraine. Whoever had the chance to leave the country has already left but...
Kinga Halász
KockaCsoki – where making chocolate helps people with autism
KockaCsoki ('Square' or, literally, a 'cube' of Chocolate) is more than just an artisanal chocolate workshop: it is a social enterprise that helps young...
Ágnes Németh
„Many teenagers who believed in freedom died in the revolution”
I feel it's my duty to embrace the goal of the boys in Pest in '56, and that's why I'm working to help Hungarian...
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
This is how the girl in the red coat remembers the revolution: 'We breathed together'
She did not even suspect that she would become a messenger of freedom when she put on her red coat and headed to the...
Adrián Szász dr.
The champion who found his way home - Ferenc Puskás has everything we Hungarians love about ourselves
There aren’t many Hungarians who do not have at least one, direct or indirect memory of Ferenc Puskás. For me, the first of these...
Zsuzsa Máthé
The most honoured daughter of the country - Countess Antonia Zichy, wife of Lajos Batthyány
The consort of the martyred Prime Minister, Count Lajos Batthyány, executed on 6 October 1849, was not only a faithful wife but also an...