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16 April – Memorial Day for the Victims of the Hungarian Holocaust

Since 2001 on 16 April each year the Memorial Day for the Victims of the Hungarian Holocaust has been held in the country remembering the unprecedented cruelty towards the Hungarian Jewry during the Second World War. The Memorial Day was initiated by Zoltán Pokorni, former Minister of Education on 18 January 2000 (55th anniversary of the liberation of the Budapest Ghetto), who declared that 16 April be remembered at schools all around Hungary, as in 1944 on that day Hungarian authorities (under German supervision) launched the mass ghettoization of the Jews.

Published on - 2021-04-16 11:15:00
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Online Hungarian Statutes by Grill

Hungarian Statutes by Grill Publishing Company was one of the most influential publications of the firm. Károly Grill's publishing house – established in 1841 – was one of the oldest company of its kind in Hungary. From 1890 onwards it specialised in releasing legal books, primarily statute collections and case law. They boasted the publication of the most popular legal book series in the country including the Grill Statute Collection, the Grill Legal Library or the Grill Collection of Administrative Statutes.

Published on - 2021-03-22 03:37:00
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A Renaissance Man from the Netherlands Exploring the New World – R.P.J. Tutein Nolthenius: Nieuwe wereld

R.P.J. Tutein Nolthenius' Nieuwe wereld (New World) is a nearly 400-page long stunning travelogue written in Duthch and published in 1902, that offers a detailed description of the natural wonders and societal complexity of the United States of America at the turn of the 20th century.

Published on - 2021-03-09 10:46:00
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Károly Bérczy writer, founder of first Hungarian sports journal born 200 years ago

Károly Bérczy, renowned Hungarian writer and journalist, founder of the first Hungarian sports journal was born on 2 March 1821. One of his most important life's achievements was rejuvenating and reinventing the Hungarian sports terminology, which was at that time crammed with German, French and English loanwords.

Published on - 2021-03-02 11:11:00
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A selection of our freshly acquired foreign titles – European Union

The Library of Parliament places strong emphasis on the acquisition of timely and relevant foreign resources related to its main scope of collection, that is law, political science, history, international organizations and foreign parliaments. Below you may find a few summaries of books selected from this year's new arrivals in the field of European studies.

Published on - 2021-02-25 03:07:00
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A selection of our freshly acquired foreign titles – Foreign parliaments

Published on - 2021-02-17 11:13:00
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