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Kati Forgach, Peter and Hungarian medical student

‘Survivors carry the credentials of the forever silenced’ — A Conversation with Dr. Péter Forgách

‘When I heard the saying, “Survivors carry the credentials of the forever silenced”, it really touched me. Due to the values instilled in me by the Hungarian scouts and the Piarists, as well as the American attitude of giving back,…
ForraiTamasatya_at Scout Camp, Fillmore, NY, 2023

‘Assimilation is inherent in the diaspora’ — A Conversation with Jesuit Father Tamás Forrai

‘It’s very interesting to see to what extent we can acknowledge the fact that diaspora life automatically implies linguistic and cultural assimilation. There’s a growing geographical dispersion; mobility is very characteristic in North America…In 2018 we finally started to talk…about…
Kerkay Emesével, Passaic, NJ

Photo-Documenting Markers of the Hungarian Diaspora — A Conversation with Gergely Tóth

An in-depth interview with German teacher Gergely Tóth, who went to the University of Berkeley, California 26 years ago for a doctoral program, then soon became immersed in local Hungarian community life. Since then, his voluntary work has extended from…

Borderless Homeland — A Conversation with Györgyi Bőjtös

‘The diaspora mentality finds the meaning of Hungarian identity in the traditional folk values ​​and advocates these throughout the world. It doesn’t isolate itself either from the world or from present-day Hungary but nurtures contacts with both; builds and maintains…

1956er Gyula Varga: ‘I will serve my Hungarian heritage until my last breath’

‘Family, school, church, scouting. The combination of these four elements is the only way the Hungarian diaspora can survive in North America. Despite the lack of a perceivable enemy today, we give up ourselves,’ 1956er Gyula Varga, former principal of…
Éva Voisin standing behind the consular information table at the Hungarian Heritage Festival. Sitting next to her is her husband, Paul Voisin.

‘I had a front row seat to history’— An Interview with Éva Voisin, Honorary Consul of Hungary in San Francisco

Éva Voisin is an accomplished lawyer, founder of the Hungarian American Chamber of Commerce and the Honorary Consul of Hungary for Northern California since 1993. She was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary in 2013,…

‘If you don’t like your job, you can’t perform at 100 percent’ — An Interview with the 95-year-old 56er Tibor Weinzierl from Massachusetts

The 95-year-old 56er Tibor Weinzierl (Várnay) talks about his adventurous life in Hungary, Canada and the US: his experiences as a prisoner of war, his musical career, his emigration, and his work ethic. Still very fit and active, Tibor Weinzierl…

The Tomorrow That Never Came — A Conversation with 95-year-old 56er István Üsztöke

On 23 October 1956, István Üsztöke participated in the production of the famous sixteen points demanding democracy as a printer, for which he had to flee from Hungary. He emigrated to the US, where he worked as a printer until…
Andrea Lauer Rice with her parents, Edith K. Lauer and the late John N. Lauer.

HAC President Andrea Lauer Rice: ‘There are only 1.3 million of us, so we have to work together—across the nation, every generation, and in both languages!’ 

Building community and connection, keeping the memory of 1956 alive, engaging the next generation of Hungarian Americans, advocating for the interests of the Hungarian ethnic communities in Europe and building bridges between Washington and Budapest: this is the mission that…
A group of (probably) Hungarian refugees arrive at Croydon Airport on 21 December 1956.

Extra Hungariam — On the Intellectual Life of the Hungarian Exiles after 1956

The 1956ers were mostly young and eager to prove their worth…A child immigrant, George Szirtes is now a well-known British poet, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize. A young medical student who was offered a place in Oxford’s famous…

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