Several of us at the Otto von Habsburg Foundation had close ties with Szabolcs Vajay, a historian who after 1944 lived in Argentina, France and for many years in Vevey, Switzerland, and who would have turned a 100 this year. The Vajay Archives and Library are preserved by the József Károlyi Foundation at the Károlyi Castle in Fehérvárcsurgó. The work of processing is similar to the activities of our Foundation, so we wish to commemorate Szabolcs Vajay’s serene personality and his work by discussing issues related to the preservation, processing and publicising of his legacy. We also wish to provide an outlook, placing our work in an international context.
The program is the last section of a two-day conference organized jointly with the József Károlyi Foundation, Eötvös Loránd University and the University of Szeged.
Date: Friday 8 October 2021
Venue: Károlyi Castle (8052 Fehérvárcsurgó, Petőfi Sándor str. 2.)
13:00 – 14:30
lunch – A toast by György Károlyi
14:30 – 16:45
Gergely Prőhle, Director, Otto von Habsburg Foundation: Greetings
Xénia Laki, Archivist, Károlyi Foundation: The Vajay-Legacy in Fehérvárcsurgó
András Oross, Delegate of the Hungarian National Archives to Vienna: Archives of the Habsburg family in the Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv in Vienna
Questions – discussion related to the professional part
Csaba Mohi, Former ambassador: The memory of Szabolcs Vajay
Ádám Lelbach, Curator: Szabolcs Vajay the knight of St John
17:00 – 18:00
Liturgy of St John (chapel)
György Gregersen-Labossa, Chaplain of the Order of St John in Hungary
