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Awards: In 1995 he was a member of the jury at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival. Kovács was honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards from Camerimage (1998), WorldFest (1999), and the American Society of Cinematographers (2002). The Lifetime Achievement Award from the ASC is the organization’s highest honor. In addition, Kovács received an Excellence in […]

He retired in 1989, and as luck had it, went back to Hungary for the first time since 1956. The next year, in 1990, he founded the Organization for Political Prisoners of the years 1945-56(PEK, Politikai Eliteltek Szovetsege 1945-56). He was the Director of this organization until his death, for 25 years! He was able to achieve many things with […]

Few human beings have lived through as much persecution and suffering as did Col. Zoltan Goboczy. Due to the meager income of his mother, a Baroness, he joined the military at an early age. He graduated from the prestigious Ludovica, joined the Artillery and rose to Colonel by 1945, in the midst of the Soviet […]

Captain Tibor Farkas’ history is one of those who suffered for the United States of America before he ever entered the country. His patriotism for his homelamd drove him to its defense in WWII, which doomed him for torture, imprisonment, loss of all property and freedom for three and a half years. He broke free […]

Please read my biography titled: “Nem Torott el a Korso” (In Hungarian)