Life

  • Kriszta Csák-Nagy
    Baroque room of sugar

    Sugar bell, sugar stamp, sugar room – Marzipan Land, the empire of the Oscar-winning Lajos Kopcsik

    It’s not only the taste of sweets that you can enjoy, but also the sight of them. This is especially true when someone uses...
  • Ágnes Bodonovich
    Mihály Zillich Franciscan monk among kids

    “I was an altar boy in the morning and a thief in the afternoon” – The testimony of a Franciscan monk

    The life of Franciscan monk Mihály Zillich - or as everyone calls him, Brother Misi - is a good example of how God is...
  • Ágnes Bodonovich
    Borbála Ivicsics

    "No arms, but I’ve received many other things from God"

    Born without arms, Borbála Ivicsics has been using her legs for everything since she was a baby. She knows no impossible, and once she...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Robert Capa with his camera

    Robert Capa, the world's best-known war photographer had a passionate desire for peace

    "It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian", said Robert Capa, the greatest war reporter in the history of photography...
  • Andrea Csongor
    a hairdresser salon

    "No one will commit suicide with beautiful, freshly washed hair...”

    "If anyone thinks it would help them, or just make them feel better, please get in touch! I offer free haircuts to people in...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Áron Trufán with his two kids laying a ceremonial wreath in Chicago

    "As a Szekler, God expects a little more from me" – Chicago pastor believes in friendship between heaven and earth

    Even during his student years in Marosvásárhely (Târgu Mures), there were always communities around Áron Trufán - whether he was going to folk dancing...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Karolina Sávolt

    "For me, painting comes naturally" – Karolina Sávolt amazes with her magical realism at the age of 12

    Twelve-year-old Karolina Sávolt started painting self-taught two and a half years ago and this year she has already had her own exhibition in Budapest...
  • Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
    A descendant of the Esterházy Family

    The communists couldn’t wipe out the past for good – Family members from as far as Chicago and London came to the World Meeting of the Esterházys

    "Respect the past to understand the present and to be able to work for the future." - this is the motto of the World...
  • Tamás Velkei
    Father András

    “I enjoy being a monk because I have dedicated my life to the one I love and who loves me.”

    What makes someone want to become a Pauline monk? What is necessary to choose this vocation? Can a monk be in love? What do...
  • Henrietta Vadas
    Flóra Béry-Januskó with her son, Ábris

    “I saw my child lying on a table, covered with a sheet” – The story of Flóra Béry-Januskó and her little son with SMA

    "As a senior in high school, I was diagnosed with a gynecological condition that gave me very little chance of ever getting pregnant naturally...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Mátyás Tóbiás and Schwarzenegger

    "It's hard to pay attention to your surroundings when you have The Terminator standing next to you” – We talked to Schwarzenegger's Hungarian bodyguard

    He was bullied as a child and enrolled in martial arts at the age of 14 to protect himself later in life. And -...
  • Médea Wilcsek
    Cynthia Berényi with her book

    ”From revolution to pandemic - writing can heal multigenerational traumas,” states Cynthia Berenyi, the Canadian-Hungarian writer

    ”I didn’t even know who I was anymore, but I knew that was what I needed to find out. I was ready. I was...
  • Anna Petz
    Mickey Hargitay and Jayne Mansfield

    Mickey Hargitay: muscle man who married a sex bomb – Hungarians in Hollywood 8.

    From acrobat apprentice to immigrant, he became a widely recognized legend of bodybuilding. Mickey Hargitay, from a poor family in Kőbánya, was an exemplary...
  • Zsuzsanna Bogos
    father feeding a baby from a bottle in the 1920s

    How was complementary feeding done a hundred years ago?

    "Oh, Tommy ate stuffed cabbage at Tibi's wedding when he was four months old, and it didn’t hurt him" - we've all heard similar...
  • Ágnes Jónás
    Attila Lólé

    “Life is much harder than prison”

    The film Rescuer, directed by Gergely Hajnal, immediately captures the viewer's attention. Not because it is half a prison story, but because it shows...
  • Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
    Emil Karáth marine biologist

    “Bitten by a shark? You must be kidding!” – interview with Emil Karáth marine biologist, underwater cameraman

    Emil Karáth, marine biologist, professional diver and award-winning filmmaker, has an extremely adventurous life. He has often been the only Hungarian to take part...
  • Sára Pataki
    Dr Richárd Hardi

    ”Hi, doctor Rishar, remember me? You operated on me!” – Dr. Richárd Hardi, ophthalmologist, restored the sight of tens of thousands of people in Congo

    Dr. Richard Hardi, an ophthalmologist who arrived in sub-Saharan Africa in the mid-1990s with a suitcase full of instruments, works in the poorest parts...