Conference Program
6 November 2026 (Friday)
Place: Ukraine, Makkosjanosi, Hotel Helikon
István Molnár D.
Ferenc Rakoczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian University, Associate Professor, PhD
From Demographic Growth to Tragedy: Changing Spatial Patterns of the Jewish Population in Transcarpathia (1870–1944)
Gyula Kosztyó (online presentation)
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Archives of the National Archives of Hungary, Archivist; Institute for Violence Research, Researcher; PhD
The Holocaust in Transcarpathia
Margit Kész és Barnabás Kész
Ferenc Rakoczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian University, Associate Professors, PhD
Jewish-Hungarian Coexistence in the Collective Memory of the Inhabitants of Ugocsa Settlements
Otokár Kaszinecz
Mukachevo State University, Assistant Professor
Mukachevo - The Palestine of Transcarpathia.
Nikolett Rozgonyiné Drotár
University of Tokaj, Associate Professor, PhD
Hegyalja was once the center of Hasidic Judaism, and today, Olaszliszka is an exemplary development of international Jewish religious tourism
József Tarpai
Ferenc Rakoczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian University, Associate Professors, PhD
Jewish Architectural Heritage of Transcarpathia: Past, Present, and Preservation
Moderator:
József Tarpai
Ferenc Rakoczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian University, Associate Professors, PhD
Discussion participants:
Dr. Tamás Goldberger
doctor, local historian, and researcher of the history of the Jewish community of Berehove
József Weisz
President of the Shalom Foundation, Berehove
Moderator:
András Mester
President of the Transcarpathian Hungarian Tourism Council
Discussion participants:
Sándor Milován
Honorary President of the Cultural Alliance of Hungarians in Sub-Carpathia (CASH); a Transcarpathian participant in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Béla Popovics
Founding President of the Transcarpathian Hungarian Scout Association; art historian
László Kovács
retired art collector
We reserve the right to change the program.