Béla Nóvé

Béla Nóvé

BÉLA NÓVÉ (1956) is a Hungarian writer, historian and documentary film maker living in Budapest. Since the late 1970s he has published a number of books, essays and studies on different themes and contributed to a dozen of documentary films as scriptwriter, interviewer and director. As a devoted researcher of 20th century oral history memoirs during the past decade his interest turned more and more to minority and refugee conflicts and their personal testimonies. A recent result of this is his biography of Ödön Pásint published in Cluj (Kolozsvár, Clausenburg) in Hungarian in 2012, awaiting its English edition. Another result is a thoroughly researched monograph and a documentary film “PATRIA NOSTRA: Minor Hungarian refugees of 1956 in the French Foreign Legion”. Both will be published this year for the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution and the author’s 60th birthday.

ÖDÖN PÁSINT: A PRISONER OF HIS CONSCIENCE – PART II

A Voice for Minorities in Dangerous Times Part II 1949–50: HOPELESSNESS […] Ödön Pásint retired […] at 48, but possibly not quite on his own initiative. As the “bourgeois” traditions of publishing the personal news of public administration (appointments, promotions, awards, retirements, etc.) in the Official Gazette had been laid

ÖDÖN PÁSINT: A PRISONER OF HIS CONSCIENCE – PART I

A Voice for Minorities in Dangerous Times Part I Chief of the Prime Ministerial Department Ödön Pásint (1900–1950) was the Transylvanian born son of a Unitarian pastor’s family, later on a secretary of Count István Bethlen, Hungarian Prime Minister (1921–1931), who maintained close and confidential ties with him up until