44th National Táncház Festival & Fair • 4–6 April 2025
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Kóka Rozália’s series on dedicated Hungarians living outside Hungary. This issue’s story features Smuk András of Vienna. Born in 1947 in the village of Pusztasomorja in a border area of Western Hungary. His family escaped in 1956. He was sent to Hungarian schools in Austria and Germany, completed his PhD and worked in Vienna in oil and natural gas research until retirement. This story is about his dedication and contribution to Hungarian culture and active participation in Vienna’s “Europa”-Club which included organization of pilgrimmages for groups of Austrian Hungarians to visit Hungarians in Hungary and in other periferal areas after 1989.