Moving to the countryside, a family’s mission in the Vértes mountains – “On a hill, in the dark, the little house is like a lantern”
A couple with young children gave up their life in the capital and found a new home and a new job a few years...
Barbara Schuster
Shaping body and soul – Ferenc Marlok makes scoliosis braces for teenagers
Ferenc Marlok is a master medical equipment technician who designs and produces custom-made plastic back braces for children with scoliosis. At first, the teenagers...
Sára Pataki
From feed factory to poultry shop chain – how the delicious Székely Csürke (Szekler Chicken) gets to the table
Born in Gyergyószentmiklós (Gheorgheni), Romania, educated in Kolozsvár (Cluj Napoca), he now runs the largest and most modern feed factory in Romania, and a...
Zsuzsanna Bogos
Why is the Swiss William Tell on the playing-card? – Discovering the secret of the Hungarian deck
In Hungary everyone is familiar with the so-called Hungarian playing cards, this popular, unique, and historical Hungarian game where the cards, oddly, are decorated...
Sára Pataki
"I could really be present mentally" – Márton Offner from Zalaegerszeg is Europe's best plumbing and heating technician
Only 21 years old, but he won the EuroSkills Competition this year. He almost resigned for the silver medal, but in the end, he...
Lívia Kölnei
One semi-true and one false myth about Ignác Semmelweis
Dr. Ignác Semmelweis , perhaps the world's best-known Hungarian doctor, was born into a German family in Buda in 1818 and died in a...
Adrián Szász dr.
A big New Year's Eve bank robbery in Pest – the action of three petty criminals ended in a tragic bloodbath
In 1903, at the age of 23, Géza Schäffer was employed by the Hungarian Commercial Bank of Pest, and ten years later he experienced...
Samu Csinta
The movie-like story of a Hindu-Hungarian aristocratic family and their Transylvanian heritage
People call him Count Gergely; Gregor Roy Chowdhury-Mikes , the majority shareholder of the Secuiana, an apparel manufactory in Kézdivásárhely (Târgu Secuiesc), Romania, has...
Sára Pataki
European champion Hungarian web developer says his profession is where art and engineering meet
He first got into programming when he was ten years old and had barely started high school before he developed his own web application...
Adrián Szász dr.
Bringanti puts even those on special bikes that others have given up on – "The morning wind touched him again, he saw the birds, the trees, the colours"
He creates bikes for people with special needs – disabled, injured, elderly, or otherwise challenged - but who are enthusiastic and know no limits...
Orsolya Jean
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...