The Andrássy Gyula University, the Kommission für Geschichte und Kultur der Deutschen in Südosteuropa and the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences will organise an international conference on "Refugees and the Refugee Question in East-Central Europe (1938-1948)" in Budapest, Hungary, 2-4 October 2025. The conference will be accompanied by a seminar for doctoral students.

You can find the call for presentations here.

You can find more information about the seminar for doctoral students here.

On 6 March 2025, Béni L. Balogh gave a lecture in Romanian at the scientific conference "Comunismul la putere. 80 de ani de la instaurarea guvernului Petru Groza, 6 Martie 1945". The title of the lecture was "Cotitura de stânga al lui Petru Groza la sfârșitul anilor 1920, începutul anilor 1930" ("Petru Groza's leftist turn at the end of the 1920s, beginning of the 1930s").

Nándor Bárdi's and Csongor Szabó's publication Deputați maghiari în Parlamentul României (1920-1940) was published in the journal of the University of Sibiu, Studia Universitatis Cibiniensis. Series Historica, vol. XXI/2024.

Gergely Pulay teaches a course at the CEU Bibó Free University every two weeks on Thursdays from 17:00. The first time will be on 6 March 2025.

More information here.

A new article by Csilla Fedinec was published.

Fedinec Csilla: Jacob Lili hazája. HURBÁN 2024/2 pp. 46-60. 

As Oren Baruch Stier puts it, Holocaust icons distill historical events and memories into easily understood symbols. Such icons are Anne Frank or Lili Jacob (Lili Meier). Lili Jacob was transported from the Berehovo ghetto to Birkenau and, during the SS evacuation, to the Dora Mittelbau camp, where she found the photo album of her extended family, the Jews of Bilke. The world-famous Auschwitz Album was first published as a book in New York in 1981. In this research I use contemporary press publications, archival documents and family papers in private collections to present the main characteristics of the Jewish population of Transcarpathia in historical perspective, the immediate consequences of the territorial revision and, based on this, the ghetto period in the region.