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...
Anna Eszter Nyizsnyánszki
Annie Fischer, the Hungarian Queen of the Piano
It is 90 years since Annie Fischer won the first prize at the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition at the age of 19, which...
Adrián Szász dr.
A new icon is born in Liverpool: Dominik Szoboszlai – The power that can raise him among the best
He was just 19 when we sat down to talk in a café in Székesfehérvár a few days before Christmas in 2019. He was...
Sára Nagy-Kuthi
Protecting abused girls in Transcarpathia, Ukraine – the story of a Hungarian pastor
Almost two decades ago, Pastor Viktória Katona 's life in Transcarpathia began with a ten-month ministry in Velyka Dobron (Nagydobrony), Ukraine. Later, she was...
Henrietta Vadas
Hungary's only active ice sculptor who is also a chainsaw woodcarver – "We've even carved an ice carriage that you could sit in"
István Gáborecz, who is originally from Transcarpathia, initially wanted to become a painter, but his application form was mixed up during the admission procedure...
Ágnes Jónás
India’s national treasure was half-Hungarian and lived only 28 years – Indian-Hungarian painter Amrita Shér-Gil was born 110 years ago
In just six years of her adult life, Hungarian-Indian-born painter Amrita Sher-Gil has created an impressive oeuvre of paintings that is now a national...
Eszter Király
”I’m not going to give up on my brother” – Tamás Kertész swimmer looks after his wheelchair-bound brother 24 hours a day
He blinks shyly at the lens but looks me in the eye with great confidence. "I'm more nervous than I was in my university...
Lívia Kölnei
A new Secretary of State who believes in the compatibility of being a mother and having a career – an interview with Ágnes Hornung
Those who know the story of her life rightly think of her as a brave and tough woman. She is the one who left...
Emese Kosztin
To go somewhere no one had ever been before
Men can also be scared. Men are also driven by the agony of fear, and the desire to prove themselves. They too are wounded...