
Who are we?
Who are we?
In 2005, our company, Kokilla Prec Kft. and the local Pentecostal Christian community started organizing pro-Israel events, which regularly had counter-protesters.
We realized that if some people can express their anti-Jewish sentiment without shame, then it is our duty to oppose anti-Semitic manifestations and stand up for God’s chosen people.

Countless persons of Jewish origin contributed to Hungary’s development and growth, without whom the history and image of the country would look different today. Hungarian industry would be different without Manfréd Weiss – just think of Csepel bicycles – or without personalities such as the salami manufacturers Ármin Herz and Márk Pick, who dreamed up the products known today as Hungaricum, Mór Fischer, founder of the Herend porcelain factory, or Gedeon Richter, a pharmaceutical manufacturer. But from many other walks of life we could list Jewish eminences who brought glory to the Hungarian home. Alfréd Hajós, swimming champion, winner of Hungary’s first Olympic gold medal, Frigyes Korányi, internist, pioneer of the fight against tuberculosis, Géza Kresz, founder of the first volunteer rescue team, János Neumann, designer of the first computer, Leó Szilárd, EdeTeller, Jenő Wigner, physicists, László József Bíró inventor of the ballpoint pen. From the field of art, László Moholy-Nagy and Robert Capa, or Sándor Korda, who created the English film industry, Vilmos Friedmann (Willam Fox), the founder of the 20th Century Fox film company, and Adolf Zukor, the founding owner of Paramount Pictures. Menyhért Lengyel is a sought-after Hollywood screenwriter, Dávid Popper is the founder of the cello department of the Academy of Music, and Márk Rózsavölgyi is the best Hungarian csárdás composer. The founder of the first Hungarian cabaret, Ernő Kondor, and József Pulitzer, who founded the world’s first journalism department, and Károly Kristóf, who introduced crossword puzzles in Hungary. But geniuses such as Ferenc Molnár, Frigyes Karinthy, Béla Balázs, Sándor Bródy, Jenő Heltai, Milán Füst, Miklós Radnóti, Arthur Koestler and last but not least Jenő Rejtő have also contributed a lot to Hungarian literature. We could go on listing the various subject areas.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, Jews receptive to modernity, inclined to courageous experimentation and open to novelties became shapers of intellectual, political and social life, shapers of public taste, not only in the capital, but also in large cities in the countryside, Highlands, Transylvania and Bánát. Without Hungarian Jewry, the mere existence of Hungarian civic culture, modern industry, economy, science and sports life is inconceivable in many respects. It is an unfortunate – one might say shameful – fact that in the 20th century, the rise of otherwise senseless and unjustified anti-Semitism, fueled by envy and destructive hatred, hit many of them with restrictive measures, the pain of the Holocaust and emigration.
Manfréd Weiss Work Visitor Centre wishes to commemorate all these people, primarily with objects created by Manfréd Weiss work, which determined the face of Hungary and the special and unique history of the Jewish people from the beginning to the present day.