Memorial plaque of Károly Tóth

On Friday, September 29, 2017, a memorial plaque to Károly Tóth was unveiled in his home village, Vághosszúfalu, in a ceremonial setting. The life and impact of the founding director of the Forum Institute, who passed away in 2016, were praised by Mayor Pál Tóth and László Öllös, President of the Forum Institute. The memorial plaque was unveiled by Gyula Hodossy, President of the Hungarian Writers' Association of Slovakia. The music was provided by Koppány Kovács. The relief on the memorial plaque is the work of Gyula Mag. ; “Organizer of the Hungarian institutions in Slovakia during the regime change. It was erected by his friends and the local government of Hosszúfalu” – reads the memorial plaque that was unveiled today in Károly Tóth's home village, a village along the Vág River in the Vágsellye district. ; On September 14, 2016, they said goodbye to Károly Tóth, the director of the Forum Minority Research Institute in Somorja. Károly Tóth was born in 1959 in Vághosszúfalu. He became involved in Hungarian public life in Slovakia as a student, studying Hungarian history at the Comenius University in Bratislava, and then, as an editor at the Madách Publishing House, he came into contact with the most important figures in Hungarian and Slovak literary life of the era. ; He participated in the amateur theater movement, organized club life in Bratislava and Vágsellye, was a member of the Iródia movement, and was a founding member of the Hungarian PEN Club in Bratislava. As a student, he became involved in the work of the Committee for the Protection of the Rights of the Hungarian Minority in Czechoslovakia, and was the initiator of the document entitled the Memorandum of Hungarians in Czechoslovakia 1988. ; In 1989, he was one of the founders of the first Slovak political movement independent of the party state, the Independent Hungarian Initiative. In 1996, he was the founder and until 2014 the director of the Forum Minority Research Institute, and he was one of the initiators of the establishment of the Round Table of Hungarians in Slovakia. On September 29, 2017, in Vághoszúfalu, his family, friends and former colleagues paid tribute to his memory, but his former schoolmates and teachers were also present.