Nóra Szekér

AN INTERNMENT CAMP COMMANDER’S STRUGGLE

The Story of István VasdényeyPart II ‘The train departed a second time.’1The title of István Lengyel’s conversation with the poet Erzsi Szenes, an inmate of the Kistarcsacamp. See: István Lengyel, ‘A vonat másodszor is kirobogott… Beszélgetés Szenes Erzsi költőnővel,a Hunsche-Krumey per tanújával’ (The Train Departed a Second Time … Conversation

2022.12.20.

AN INTERNMENT CAMP COMMANDER’S
STRUGGLE

The Story of István VasdényeyPart I ‘All the outrages that must have been committed,and all the holy deeds that were done.’János Pilinszky ‘It was here that the outlines of our century were sketched […]. Like the props of the passion drama, almost all the tools of our civilization were immersed

2022.09.29.

WAY BEYOND THE TAXI BLOCKADE

NSZ: Contemporaneous debates in Parliament and various memoirs make it clear that the gas price hike which triggered the taxi blockade in October 1990 was a contested issue within the government itself. What do you recall about the controversy as Minister of Industry and Trade back then? PÁB: To understand

2016.07.08.

CRISIS AND ASCENT – THE DAYS OF THE 1990 TAXI BLOCKADE

NSZ-ZN: First of all, can you briefly describe what was your status in the government at the time? GYK: During the first two years of the administration I was Head of the Prime Ministerial Advisers Office, at the same time Chief Adviser on Foreign Affairs, answering directly to the Prime

2016.05.05.

DOMOKOS SZENT-IVÁNYI AND HIS BOOK: AN INTRODUCTION – PART II

Part II Even after Teleki’s tragic death it remained politically practicable for politicians in the highest places to organise both secret foreign policy and Hungarian anti-Nazi resistance while at the same time behaving as allies of Germany. As British historian C. A. Macartney remarked with much insight: “the fact there

2014.01.08.

DOMOKOS SZENT-IVÁNYI AND HIS BOOK – PART I

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himselfaccording to the outcome, he would never begin.Even though the result may gladden the wholeworld, that cannot help the hero; for he knows theresult only when the whole thing is over, and that isnot how he became a hero, but by

2013.11.09.