‘For some Hungarians, America promised bread, freedom, and a new beginning; for others, it revealed exploitation, prejudice, and the unsettling realization that far from home, even identity itself could slowly dissolve.’

‘Interestingly, after Ady’s death in January 1919, for years it did not even occur to anyone that a public space in Hungary might be named after him. The first mention comes from a 1927 newspaper report: the Debrecen Museum, tasked by the city with renaming two hundred streets, named one after Endre Ady.’

‘In the end, Ferenc Fiala’s story resists simple moral judgment, revealing how ideology, ambition, and personal conscience could collide in deeply unsettling ways—yet it also forces us to confront the fact that, despite his acts of rescue, he remained a committed Nazi to the end.’

80 years ago, Ferenc Szálasi, the ‘Leader of the Nation’ of Hungary, was executed; in connection with his ‘activities’, it is worth recalling the events of Arrow Cross terror in Kassa and sharing a few related documents.

‘Petschauer was born in Budapest in 1904 and was a talented fencer. He was working towards his law degree when he became a member of the Hungarian Olympic team in 1928 and won a gold medal in team sabre, and then another gold medal in 1932 in Los Angeles, also in team sabre.’

Was the great writer Antal Szerb beaten to death by a fellow Jew, as a postwar indictment and online claims suggest? Drawing on court records, testimonies, and archival evidence, this piece revisits a murky People’s Court case to separate hearsay, vengeance, and historical fact.

‘These cases highlight the cruel paradox of 1951: people who had already suffered persecution were once again uprooted by a regime that judged them by social labels rather than personal history.’

‘Elderly, much like children, often need the power of the state for protection, but in this case, it was the state itself which saw them as “class enemies”. These old Hungarian citizens, whatever their political beliefs were, had trouble taking care of themselves, yet the Communist state…branded them enemies of the people and forcibly removed them from their homes…’

‘Some were permitted to take shelter with relatives in the countryside, but the majority of such requests were rejected. Only in the rarest cases did deportees arrive under relatively consolidated conditions…This article will focus especially on deported families with little children, and our further articles will inspect other interesting cases as well.’

‘From 1974 to the late 1980s, Hungary’s state security closely monitored the Turkish embassy at 45 Úri Street in the Buda Castle, keeping tabs on diplomats, their residences, and even personal correspondence. Newly examined documents reveal how counterintelligence observed NATO diplomats, highlighting both the meticulous methods of the secret services and the routine nature of embassy life.’