[America is my homeland : A Hungarian Roma in New York]
However painful is for me to say it, Hungary was a dead end for me. I felt at every point that they stigmatized me for my origin: my family, my colleagues, my compatriots. I had to leave my native land, I wanted a different life! And New York accepted me. I believe that this was my best decision ever.
This book presents the instructive and exciting career history of businessman Sandor Balogh, who managed to build a career the likes of which few Hungarian Roma achieved. - Based on the Hungarian text provided by publisher.

[America differently : the New World, as Hungarians without a work permit saw it]
Many travel guides and picture albums have been published about the United States illustrated with beautiful pictures. This book is something else. This book goes beyond the rosy dreamscapes and presents America through the experiences of ordinary Hungarian people who took on black labor on the eastern coast of the continent-wide country. The reader gets a taste of this special world with the help of the collected experiences, opinions, and even useful information for real tourists; you can get a glimpse into the sometimes exciting, sometimes disappointing, but mostly sweat-smelling everyday life. This guaranteed safe trip is made even more colorful by dozens of illustrations. - Translated from the text provided by publisher.

[From the Adriatic to America: the memoirs of Lieutenant General Kálmán Hardy]
Biography of a Hungarian general who served in World War II as part of admiral Horthy's military.

[Breakthroughs : my life and science]
English original: Breaking through
A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist whose decades-long research led to the COVID-19 vaccines. Katalin Karikó had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in a one-room home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables. She saw the wonders of nature all around her and was determined to become a scientist. That determination eventually brought her to the United States, where she arrived as a postdoctoral fellow in 1985 with $1,200 sewn into her toddler's teddy bear and a dream to remake medicine. Karikó worked in obscurity, battled cockroaches in a windowless lab, and faced outright derision and even deportation threats from her bosses and colleagues. She balked as prestigious research institutions increasingly conflated science and money. Despite setbacks, she never wavered in her belief that an ephemeral and underappreciated molecule called messenger RNA could change the world. Karikó believed that someday mRNA would transform ordinary cells into tiny factories capable of producing their own medicines on demand. She sacrificed nearly everything for this dream, but the obstacles she faced only motivated her, and eventually she succeeded. Karikó's three-decades-long investigation into mRNA would lead to a staggering achievement: vaccines that protected millions of people from the most dire consequences of COVID-19. These vaccines are just the beginning of mRNA's potential. Today, the medical community eagerly awaits more mRNA vaccines-for the flu, HIV, and other emerging infectious diseases. Breaking Through isn't just the story of an extraordinary woman-it's an indictment of closed-minded thinking and a testament to one woman's commitment to laboring intensely in obscurity-knowing she might never be recognized in a culture that is more driven by prestige, power, and privilege-because she believed her work would save lives. - Provided by publisher.

English version of the book: A wayfaring stranger : Ernst von Dohnányi's American years, 1949-1960
On March 10, 1948, world-renowned composer and pianist Ernst von Dohnányi (1877-1960) embarked for the Americas, leaving Europe for good. The Hungarian musician was seventy years old, and only a few years earlier he had been a triumphant, internationally admired pianist and leading figure in Hungarian musical life. Fleeing a political smear campaign that sought to implicate him in intellectual collaboration with fascism, he reached American shores without a job or a home. Based on a range of previously unavailable material, A Wayfaring Stranger presents the final period in Dohnányi's exceptional career and reexamines commonly held beliefs about the composer and his unique musical oeuvre. Offering insights into his life as a teacher, pianist, and composer, the book also considers the difficulties of émigré life, the political charges made against him, and the compositional and aesthetic dilemmas faced by a conservative artist. - Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-353) and index.

[A poet looks back: autobiography]
aka Konnyu, Leslie
Includes photographs, illustrations, maps, and poems.

Related titles: Faithful into death.
[Faithful unto death: the life and heroic death of the Hungarian hero of the American War of Independence, Hussar Colonel Mihály Fabricy Kováts]

Translation of: The great escape : nine Jews who fled Hitler and changed the world
In this ground-breaking book, acclaimed author Kati Marton brings to life an unknown chapter of World War II: the tale of nine men who grew up in Budapest's brief Golden Age, then, driven from Hungary by anti-Semitism, fled to the West, especially to the United States, and changed the world. These nine men, each celebrated for individual achievements, were actually part of a unique group who grew up in a time and place that will never come again. It is Marton's extraordinary achievement to trace what for a few dazzling years was common to all of them -- the magic air of Budapest -- and show how their separate lives and careers were, in fact, all shaped by Budapest's lively cafe; life before the darkness closed in.Marton follows the astonishing lives of four history-changing scientists, all just one step ahead of Hitler's terror state, who helped usher in the nuclear age and the computer (Edward Teller, John von Neumann, Leo Szilard, and Eugene Wigner); two major movie myth-makers (Michael Curtiz, who directed Casablanca, and Alexander Korda, who produced The Third Man); two immortal photographers (Robert Capa and Andre Kertesz); and one seminal writer (Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon). - Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

[Zsuzsanna Kossuth : her novelized biography]
During the Hungarian reform era and the revolution of 1848, national feeling and fight for human rights fit well together. Zsuzsanna Kossuth was a smart, talented, ambitious woman whose abilities and opportunities were severely limited by the rules of her time. Her life story is moving and captivating even without the twists and turns of politics. It has all the usual tragedies and struggles of its time. She was an exceptional person, and the age in which he lived was exceptional. She survived cholera, floods, poverty and happiness, several births and more deaths, revolutions, freedom struggles, escapes and prisons, and dozens of new beginnings, including her move to New York. One hundred and seventy years ago, she was the first in the world to organize nationwide military hospital care. - Translated from text provided by publisher.

Biography of the actor Lugosi, Bela, 1882-1956.
This book contains mostly the story of his life; his works as an actor are presented in the context of his biography, but they are not the main focus of this book - Description form the author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-132).

In English: Enemies of the people : my family's journey to America
In this true-life thriller Kati Marton, an award-winning journalist, exposes the cruel mechanics of the Communist Terror State using the secret police files on her parents, as well as dozens of interviews that reveal how her family was spied on and betrayed by friends, colleagues, and even their children’s babysitter. In this moving and brave memoir, Marton searches for and finds her parents and love.
Includes index.

Many people know Edward Teller as the "Father of the H-Bomb." To his supporters he was a hero of the Cold War. To his detractors he was evil personified. Between these extremes was the life of the real man. In this definitive and comprehensive biography, a personal acquaintance of Teller's presents a balanced portrait of the multifaceted and enigmatic scientist against the backdrop of a turbulent period of history. Taking pains to avoid bias and preconceptions, the author critically examines Teller's personality, family background, and the experiences that guided his actions-correcting many of the myths that others and Teller himself promulgated.
Who was Edward Teller-the real "Dr. Strangelove," the driven crusader for the H-Bomb, the villain who destroyed Oppenheimer, or the devoted husband, loyal friend, patriot, and strongly idealistic scientist? This monumental work will reveal the contradictory nature of this complex man in all his strengths, flaws, and brilliance. - Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

[Indictment; honest confessions about the life of Hungarians in America]
Available online
Vol. 1 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00197217297
Vol. 2 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00197217303

[There once was an America / the story of István Kmeczkó written by Kmeczkó Mihály based on famiy stories]
Once upon a time in 1899 a 17-year-old peasant boy from Buzita takes the world on his shoulders, just like the smallest boy in the fairy tale, to try his luck. He crosses the great lake (the Atlantic Ocean) and does not stop until his promised land, America. - Translated from the text provided by publisher.
Avaialable online on the website of the Hungarian National Library MEK External