Memories

Personal memories and recollections from different periods and places.

Trips to Yugoslavia

We often went to the then Yugoslavia when I was a child s there was no possibility to travel to Western Europe only later. But Croatia and Serbia offered great

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Ice Cream and More

There was a place in the centre of the town called ’Ice Cream and More’. Whenever we had a chore in the centre like buying a textbook or sheet music

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Helicobacter pylori

Helicobacter pylori or H pylori as it is called in everyday practice was hailed as a a groundbreaking discovery on the 1990s. Textbooks were published and congresses organized ont he

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Koko

I had a friend in my house at a scary period when Koko was in heat. As she was the apple of my eye I was eager to look after

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1956

Lilly and Feri stayed in Nagybanya visiting close relatives when the revolution broke out. They had breakfast on 23 Otober and lisened to the radio. They were strange speeches that

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Ira, the keen typist

She had spent all her working life at the University Clinic as a typist. She loved to gossip, that was why she chose an office attached to the library, as

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Matild

From the 90s on when travelling over the borders became easy, middle-class families started employing women coming from Ukraine and Romania for household chores. Most of them were Magyar in

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Kriszti and Joska

I had four neighbours in Budakeszi, one of them was Kriszti and Joska, another Bela and Ari. Joska was very jealous. One day, as Kriszti told me, he saw Kriszti

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The distracted professor

Bela had reached the highest levels in scientific qualifications while being a dodgy clinician. He merely lived in another world wholly unbothered even by the presence of others. He was

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