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Hungarian American scoutmaster, retired mathematics teacher Viktor Fischer

‘The scout-bug is still inside me’ — A Conversation with Former New York Scoutmaster Viktor Fischer

In October 1951, Zoltán Vasvári, a.k.a. ‘Zolibá’, a former Hungarian military officer, gathered the sons of many Hungarian families in his New York apartment to introduce them to Hungarian scouting. Viktor Fischer joined the first patrol in the spring of…
The Huszár government in 1919. István Haller is first from left in the first row.

Christian and Antisemitic? — István Haller’s Christian Politics

István Haller was a prominent Hungarian Christian politician in the first half of the 20th century. His book summing up his views on Christian politics is apparently paradoxical—it is both Christian-inspired and antisemitic. This combination illustrates the troubling tension that…
The USS Coral Sea at the end of 1956 with the message May God help you

The Message of a US Aircraft Carrier from 1956 — Fortepan’s 200,000th Photo

An American sailor of Hungarian origin served on the Coral Sea, perhaps as a helmsman. He was probably the one to come up with the idea that the money originally collected for the crew’s Christmas presents be given to Hungarian…
Villa Rica viewed from the Loma del Diablo ridge

A Hungarian in the Peruvian Jungle: The Story of Esteban Vajda Széchenyi

Esteban Vajda Széchenyi, born in 1923 as István Vajda in Nagykőrös, Hungary, was a prominent member of the Villa Rica community in the Central Jungle of Peru. Although he found a new home in the South American country, he preserved…
Mercenaries (VI) (cropped) by Leon Golub (1987)

The Ukraine War Goes Global: More and More Foreigners Fight on Both Sides

The war quite literally consumes people; they are killed or maimed physically and psychologically at an unprecedented rate. Using foreign fighters is consequently quite logical for both sides. They alleviate domestic pressure to recruit more soldiers, with the new fighters…
Albert Bierstadt, In the Sierras / Lake Tahoe (1868). Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Playing Second Fiddle: Europe in the Atlantic Community

‘The gradual diminishing of Europe’s importance in the eyes of the successive US administrations in the twenty-first century has been arrested by Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, and weakened the “pivot” or “rebalance” to Asia for the time being: emergencies have…
Eva Kazella with her grandchildren in the United States

‘I always considered myself Hungarian’ — A Conversation with Eva Kazella

An in-depth interview with Eva Kazella, a prominent member of the Hungarian American community, about the deportation of her family from Communist Slovakia, the vicissitudes before starting a new life in the United States, her family, and the vibrant community…
Vice Regent, Air Force First Lieutenant István Horthy before takeoff (unknown author, before 1942)

The Tragic Death of István Horthy

István Horthy, the son of Miklós Horthy, lost his life in a plane crash on the Russian front barely six months after he was elected Vice Regent of Hungary….
The National Flag at half-mast on Szabadság Square

‘So it was, so it shall be’ — The Movement of the ‘Uncompromising Hungarian’ Was Launched 96 Years Ago

Following Hungary’s defeat in the First World War, the victors’ intentions were clear concerning our country: to impose punishments that would result, if not in the short term but in the long term, in the total disappearance of the former…
A scene from the film Eternal Winter (2018)

The Privacy of Rapture — Reviewing the Film Eternal Winter

The award-winning 2018 Hungarian drama Eternal Winter, directed by Attila Szász, based on a screenplay by Norbert Köbli, is a powerful account of the tragic fate of the Swabians in Hungary under the Soviet occupation of the country….

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