Tomislav Aralica is son of Ivan Aralica and a military historian, who possesses a large collection of historical weapons.

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- Zagreb, Croatia

Arany, Adalbert László

László Adalbert Arany was a Hungarian linguist, teacher and ethnographer from Slovakia. From 1943 he worked as a research assistant at the Slovak Academy of Science, but in 1946 he was dismissed due to his Hungarian origin. Like many other Hungarians, Arany was also persecuted after World War II. Despite that, he became the head of an illegal movement. The movement mainly focused on the problems of the Hungarian minority in Czechoslovakia. Through the movement he met Cardinal József Mindszenty, who became his close co-worker. For his illegal work and perhaps also for his cooperation with Mindszenty, Arany was sentenced to 8 years labor. Most of this time he spent in a uranium mine.

Bachynsky, Leonid

Leonid Bachynsky, born 28 February 1896 in Katerynoslav (later Dnipropetrovsk and now Dnipro), was a teacher, community activist and journalist. He studied the natural sciences at Kyiv University, before joining the ranks of the Ukrainian National Republic’s army (1918-1920). During the revolutionary years, he gave many lectures to the soldiers in UNR army camps, before moving along with other UNR leaders to Tarnów in 1920. Moving briefly to Przemyśl in 1921, he was assigned the directorship of a gymnasium in the village of Luka near Sambir, where he taught until the school was dissolved in 1923 by the Polish authorities. Bachynsky then moved to the Transcarpathian city of Uzhgorod, where he taught and also became involved in the organization of Plast (Ukrainian Scouts) until 1929, when the Czechoslovak government forced him to leave, reportedly because of his work with Plast and also his use of the term Carpatho-Ukraine in articles and speeches. He moved back to Przemyśl where he continued teaching, writing and organizing Ukrainian youth until the outbreak of war in 1939, when he moved to Jarosław and became director of a trade school. In 1944, along with many others, Bachynsky fled westward, landing in a deported persons camp near Heidenau, where he resumed his pedagogical work and youth outreach, prior to moving to the United States in 1950. He authored and compiled more than 45 works, many of them on farming and biology.

In 1952, he founded the Ukrainian Museum-Archives in Cleveland, Ohio, which he directed until 1977. Once in the US, Leonid worked as a machinist, but his real passion was collecting. His brother Evhen regularly sent him materials to Cleveland from Geneva from the 1950s to the 1970s, including the personal papers of diplomats, documentation of the Ukrainian Red Cross, and other items. Most of those were transferred to Carleton University in 1982, though the imprint of the Bachynsky brothers is still very much visible in the UMA’s holdings.

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- Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, United States of America
- Dnipro, Ukraine 49000
- Heidenau, Germany
- Kyiv City, Kiev, Ukraine 02000
- Przemyśl, Poland
- Tarnow, Poland 33-100

Bak, Imre

Painter. Studied at the Hungarian Academy of Arts between 1958 and 1963. He was a member of the Zugló Circle in the first half of the 1960s. Beginning in the mid-1960s, the structure of his works was geometric. In addition to studying local progressive traditions (Kassák, Korniss, and the European School), he also followed the development of international trends. In 1968 and 1969, he exhibited at the Iparterv exhibitions. He was a founding member of the Budapest Studio. In the early 1970s, he had a conceptual period, and he created works produced with photography, text, and offset collages. He studied the structure of images and the semantic aspects of signs. In the second half of the decade, he returned to painting. Aside from the lessons learned from his own hard-edge works of the late 1960s, he was also influenced by signal art and postmodernism. Traces of folk art, among other traditions, are also apparent in his use of motifs. Beginning in the 1990s, he created compositions related to building structures; later, he turned to emphasizing the depths of space. In the late 1980s, he was involved in teaching. His theoretical writings are also significant.

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- Budapest, Hungary

Bakos, István

István Bakos (1943), a Hungarian scholar of culture, was an opposition activist. He graduated from the agricultural technical college in Szentlőrinc. Beginning in 1963, he worked as an agronomist in the New Life Collective Farm in Peterd. Between 1964 and 1969, he studied Hungarian language and literature and cultural program organization at Loránd Eötvös University, and he organized student life at the József Eötvös College. He finished his studies in 1969. For one year he was the student president at the University’s Arts Faculty. Between 1970 and 1973, he worked at the Academic Management Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, before taking a position at the National Council of Collective Farms. From 1975 to 1978, he worked at the Commission of Academic Policy of the Hungarian Government. Between 1979 and 1994, he worked at the Ministry of Culture. As a member of the national opposition, he was one of the initiators of the Gábor Bethlen Foundation (1980), whose aim was to protect national minority rights and advance minority cultural life. He contributed to the organization of the Lakitelek Meeting, a major event of the nationalist-populist opposition in 1987, and the creation of the political party the Hungarian Democratic Forum. From 1994 until 1999, he served as the elected secretary-general of the World Federation of Hungarians (WFH), and until 2004 he was the head of department at the National Schoolbook Publisher. Between 1999 and 2007, he served as the president of the Gábor Bethlen Foundation.

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- Budapest, Hungary