Family

  • Barbara Baska

    "My father became a hero twice" – The Baska family’s story speaks to hundreds of thousands

    After the Second World War, between 1945 and 1949, around 120,000 Hungarians in Czechoslovakia were deported or driven out of their homeland under the...
  • Andrea Csongor
    a baby being examined

    "We are the ones who get into every household concerned without notice" – Aranka Szabóné Kurucz, a health visitor, always puts the child first

    "I am the one who protects the children" , says Aranka Szabóné Kurucz , who has been helping the everyday life of families for...
  • Kati Szám
    Fanni Illés

    Fanni Illés: "The para-athletes who make it to a competition have already won the biggest battle with life"

    In Fanni Illés ' life, two factors present a special challenge every day: one she has been given, the other she has chosen. She...
  • Andrea Csongor
    Two goatlings jumping over a bench on the Marriage Path in Óbudavár

    Blessed are the cheese makers? – The Hungarian Schoenstatt Movement seeks to respond to the problem of the families in crisis

    When I once searched for the smallest settlements in Hungary, I found Óbudavár, at the entrance to the Nivegy Valley. From there, the path...
  • Henrietta Vadas
    Zsuzsa Enikő Kocsis and her husband after the wedding ceremony in their traditional folk attire

    “On our wedding almost everyone wore the traditional folk costume” – interview with a native girl from Szék, Romania

    A native of the village of Szék (Sic) in Transylvania, she is passionate about the traditions and costumes of her native people. She organized...
  • Lívia Kölnei
    Zsuzsa Bergs

    At least 120 children owe their lives to them – The story of a Hungarian - Dutch couple

    At every pro-life event in Hungary, you are likely to meet a humble and very active couple: Ed and Zsuzsa Bergs. They hate the...
  • Samu Csinta
    Boris Kálnoky

    Paradise Found – A spiritual adventure tour in the land of the Kálnoky family ancestors

    A gallery of ancestors who built the history of this Transylvanian aristocratic family from the 13th-century Tatar invasion to the communist devastation of the...
  • Kinga Halász
    Ágnes Szabó-Keresztes, creator of the Lantern on the Road guesthouse, with her family

    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...
  • Fanni Fekete
    Adrán Marcinkó

    “Komárom is a city with weight” – Adrián Marcinkó is building the community of Hungarian entrepreneurs in Slovakia

    Many people think that entrepreneurs are lonely people, and as a minority Hungarian, this can be doubly true. Adrián Marcinkó from Komárom, Slovakia, founder...
  • Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
    The owners of Kiscsikó restaurant, Ildikó and Róbert Puskás with their daughter

    The love of the whole team is in every dish – the Kiscsikó restaurant in Transcarpathia is open even in wartime

    The phone number starts with +38. This is Ukraine. The neighbouring country where there has been a war for two years now and which...
  • Lívia Kölnei
    A painting of Ignác Semmelweis in 1857, aged 39, at the time of his wedding

    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...
  • Samu Csinta
    Gregor Roy Chowdhury

    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), has aristocratic...
  • 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...
  • Kriszta Csák-Nagy
    The Fenyvesi Family

    “Now, Andrea, you won’t have any more children, will you?" - Risk, Adventure and Challenge with 11 kids

    With ten siblings, you have to fight for attention as well as a good seat in the minibus. But you're never bored, and there's...
  • 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...
  • Borbála Szabó
    birthday cake with 40 candels

    He called me old! – A woman in her forties at the OBGYN

    According to the data of 2019 of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) the life expectancy for women in the capital is eighty years...
  • Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
    Emil Karáth and his son

    Hungarian marine biologist rebuilds coral reefs with his teenage son

    Marine biologist Emil Karáth almost drowned twice as a child, but despite - or perhaps because of - this, the water became his life...