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Change in the Board of the Friends of Hungary Foundation
Thirteen years after the birth of our foundation, with innumerable successes behind him, Vizi E. Szilveszter resigned from his position as President of the Board of Trustees.
2024-07-15 More -
Ábel Lajtha, member of the Founding Board of the Friends of Hungary Foundation passed away
Ábel Lajtha, renowned neurochemist, brain research professor, academic, founding member of the Friends of Hungary Foundation, died at the age of 102 in New York.
2024-05-27 More -
Friend of Hungary Awards 2024
In 2016, the Friends of Hungary Foundation established the Friends of Hungary Award, for which members of the Friends of Hungary can nominate candidates every year: any of the Hungarians living in the diaspora and Hungarian organizations who provide support for a more positive international perception of Hungary. This year, we held this ceremony for the eighth time in order to personally thank the awardees for their tireless work in the cause of Hungarians. 2024 awardees: Katalin C. Szabó, Zoltán Fodor-Lengyel, and Cleveland's Bocskai Rádió.
2024-05-22 More -
Marika Radda, a member of the Friends of Hungary Foundation, was honored
The Knight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit was awarded to Marika Radda, the honorary president of Club Pannonia in Vienna.
2024-04-22 More -
Árpád Somogyi, member of the Friends of Hungary Foundation passed away
Árpád Somogyi, a member of the Friends of Hungary Foundation died at the age of 87. We send our sincere condolences to his family and loved ones.
2024-03-25 More -
Balázs Gulyás, founding member of the Friends of Hungary Foundation, and András Guttman member of our community received a state award
We congratulate the awardees and thank them for their dedicated service to Hungary!
2024-03-19 More -
„Mit Ungarn über Ungarn reden“/ "Hungarians about Hungary”
On Friday, March 1, 2024, the Friends of Hungary Foundation and the Embassy of Hungary in Vienna held a joint event entitled "Mit Ungarn über Ungarn reden" in the Austrian capital. At the highly successful event, more than a hundred guests were able to listen to the welcome words of Ambassador Edit Szilágyiné Bátorfi and the introduction of Vizi E. Szilveszter, the President of the Foundation, and the podium discussion by Sámuel Ágoston Mráz, the head of the Nézőpont Institute, with Dr. Bence Bauer, the Director of the MCC Hungarian-German Institute, about current political issues related to Hungary.
2024-03-12 More -
Károly Kocsis became a member of the Szent István Academy of Sciences
Károly Kocsis, member of the board of trustees of the Friends of Hungary Foundation, gave his inaugural lecture at the Szent István Academy of Sciences on February 5, 2024.
2024-02-12 More -
Being Hungarian in America I. - book by Ildikó Antal-Ferencz
A book of interviews by freelance journalist Ildikó Antal-Ferencz was published by Bocskai Rádió, Cleveland. The subjects of the thirty-seven interesting conversations are American Hungarians: former or current leaders and representatives of churches (Catholic and Reformed) and civil organizations (foreign Hungarian scout teams, weekend schools and school camps, clubs, traditionalists and folk dance groups), entrepreneurs or artists - many of them are highly regarded members of our Foundation.
2024-01-15 More -
Mariann Vízkelety, member of the Board of Trustees of the Friends of Hungary Foundation passes away
Mariann Vízkelety, former State Secretary for Public Administration and Justice, Prime Minister's Commissioner, member of the Board of Trustees of the Friends of Hungary Foundation, died on Sunday.
2024-01-09 More