Life

  • Ádám Lázár
    Magdolna Friedmann and her husband

    Hungarian Women for India – and what they shared: dedication, intellectual strength, and sensitivity to others

    India became an independent country in 1947. Few people know that until the outbreak of World War II, a few self-sacrificing Hungarian women worked...
  • Lívia Kölnei
    Kálmán Varga and his garden steam engine

    A creative engineer made his childhood dream come true and rides his own steam locomotive in his garden

    "I was about ten years old when I saw that there was a machine blowing smoke in one of the backyards in our street...
  • Andrea Csongor
    István and his adopted son Timoti

    Becoming a father in a single minute – "I gave up my high-paying job, European travels, and my life as a cool, single man for a baby"

    In some strange way, the theme of motherhood comes to my mind like the giant fish in the old fisherman's. Sometimes I feel like...
  • Tamás Ulicza
    Géza Soós and a Heinkel He-111 bomber plane

    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 group of sportsmen travelling to the XVI Summer Olympic Games. In the foreground István Hevesi water polo player, next to him Imre Polyák wrestler, and György Gurics wrestler, behind them Ervin Zádor water polo player, and Jenő Bakó, swimming master coach

    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
    Donát Fehérvári

    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
    a chellist

    ”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.
    Norbert Biró

    "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...
  • Lilla Zeke
    Noben Prize laureate Ferenc Krausz

    "The Hungarian scientist who received the Nobel Prize" – Ferenc Krausz in service of humanity

    "From the podium, it's hard to tell who will win a Nobel Prize, but you can see who is ambitious. Ferenc Krausz was one...
  • Andrea Csongor
    Katalin Karikó

    “How come we haven't noticed this before?” – was asked from Katalin Karikó, who in turn discovered it and received the Nobel Prize

    The question was asked at a party by a scientist who had earlier repeatedly criticized Katalin Karikó , the Hungarian biochemist who has just...
  • Henrietta Vadas
    98-year -old Sára Komárominé Vojna in her humble home

    “As a maid, I knew every nook and cranny of the Habsburg castle in Alcsút” – the story of 98-year-old Sári néni

    Sára Komárominé Vojna, or Sári néni , was born on 1 November 1925 in Alcsút, where she grew up as the fourth child in...
  • Villő Tóth
    Éva Ádám

    The adventurous journey of Éva, a young Roma social worker from Tata to Berlin – "To be human in all circumstances"

    Éva Ádám is a young woman who has seen so many touching human stories that a lifetime might not be enough to tell them...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Sándor Iharos running at a race

    World success chased him in vain, never caught up with him – Sándor Iharos, a runner who was faster than everyone

    It is said that in Hungary in the 1950s, Sándor Iharos was to athletics what Ferenc Puskás was to football. In 1955, he was...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Réka Csulak

    “A food photo is only good if it makes you want to go and get it!” – Food photographer Réka Csulak's works win international awards

    She takes photos of food, often preparing the dishes herself, based on her own recipes, and is usually the food stylist for the photos...
  • Orsolya Jean
    Regina Káró with her mother

    Regina Káró: ”If you fail at something, there is only one thing you should never do: quit. Because you can always try again.”

    At the age of 23, Regina Káró felt she had made it: she successfully graduated from college and spent her internship at a luxury...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Dominic Szoboszlai playing football at the Hungary-Lithuania match

    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
    kids in the children's home in Nagydobrony

    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...