The Hungarian Corvin-lánc Board organized a very successful conference, commemorating the wide-ranging and still effective nation-building work of István Nemeskürty, who served as the Board's first president in the period after 2001. On the 9th anniversary of his death, on the 9th anniversary of his death, October 2024, several of the country's most prominent experts on the subject presented the activities and significance of Professor Nemeskürty, who is well-versed in both the scientific and film worlds and who owns one of the richest and most diverse oeuvres in the Hungarian cultural history of the 20th century. 8, the Board at its headquarters, in the Roheim villa.
Praising the activities of Professor Nemeskürty, "...he was a role model for many of us in his patriotism, a restorer of Hungarian historical continuity, from whom we could learn that without a memory policy based on an objective assessment of the historical past, there is no unified national consciousness, no national community that bravely accepts its past." In his books and in his public activities, Professor Nemeskürty dared to raise ideas that started cathartic processes, serving purification and clarity.
He testified that the form of existence in which "we do not shape our destiny, but something happens to us" is unacceptable for Hungarians.
In the course of our history, it has been proven many times that we can be proud of those eras when our character was not shaped by our history, but our character shaped our destiny.
Photo: Martos_L_Balázs / István Nemeskürty memorial conference
The participants praised Nemeskürty's role in shaping Hungarian film history, especially in the field of historical films, which
contributed to the strengthening of Hungarian national identity.
István Nemeskürty and the current honorees of the Hungarian Corvin chain can be the compasses of society, those who can reconcile their individual interests with the spirit of the community. The task of the Board is to contribute to the integration of the communities of Hungarians living as minorities in the Carpathian Basin and scattered around the world as part of the cross-border cultural policy. István Nemeskürty also showed direction in this, starting many on the path of patriotism.
Photo: Martos_L_Balázs / István Nemeskürty memorial conference
The participants remembered two recently deceased members of the Hungarian Corvin Chain Board, Professor Sir George Radda Father István Jelenits , a Piarist monk, whose passing is a painful and irreplaceable loss for the Hungarian Corvin Chain Board and the whole world.
Cover photo: István Nemeskürty in the military history museum, 2005 Photo: Barnabás Honéczy Source: MTI–Barnabás Honéczy
