Journalist, filmmaker, local history researcher

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She researches and presents the history of Hungarian Jewry through personal destinies, and her work focuses on microhistory: by exploring the lives of former families, doctors, teachers, rabbis, and entrepreneurs, she makes the human, cultural, and economic loss caused by the Holocaust tangible.

As a resident of Erzsébetváros, she is particularly interested in the district's Jewish past. She shares her research in articles, films, lectures and memorial walks; among other things, he has also processed the history of the Bánd baking dynasty and the former Kazinczy Street bread factory. As one of the founders of the Seven Olive Trees Association, she facilitates dialogue between different social groups by organizing public discussions and debates.

Her research extends beyond the borders of Budapest. In the wake of the search for the heir to a collection of coins found in Keszthely, buried during the period of the Great Depression, she began to uncover the history of the city's forgotten Jewish community. She focused on the lives of music teacher Mimi Mosonyi, born Morgenstern, and Sándor Büchler, the chief rabbi of Keszthely, and he also documented the memories of synagogues, cemeteries and former communities in several settlements in Tokaj-Hegyalja and the Felvidék.

It brings back family stories for descendants and helps local communities recognize the diversity of their own past. It also commemorates victims who left no survivors. Its activities are defined by humanity, action against racism and building bridges between social groups; this work was recognized with the Raoul Wallenberg Prize in 2020.