The life works of Janos Rithnovsky

Sir Janos Rithnovsky, the founder of the first Hungarian guide dog school, faced many difficulties during his lifelong fight to achieve his goal and establish professional guide dog training in Hungary.

Sir Janos Rithnovsky, the founder of the first Hungarian guide dog school
Sir Janos Rithnovsky, the founder of the first Hungarian guide dog school

 

His legacy lives on in his collected works he left behind for us to share, to use wisely and critically to improve the lives of people living with disabilities. His collected works, both fiction and non-fiction, as well as his now classic autobiography, At the other side of light, can be found on this site. The later can also be found as an audio book, presented by Vera Demjen.

Videos

Janos Rithnovszky and Amir: this documentary was made in 1962 as part of a series by Hungarian Television’s Channel 1, entitled Paletta.  The short movie is centred on a trained guide dog Amir and his work. The training of guide dogs is also introduced through following Amir’s offspring, Vitez during his training. Video about this training on our youtube chanel: János Rithnovszky  and Amír

Fiction in Hungarian

Non-Fiction in Hungarian

At the other side of light

Published by Gondolat Budapest, 1991. Edited by Istvan Siklaki. Photographs by Mrs Jolan Vida Lipcsei. ISBN 963 282 614 0

Introduction

Preface

My dog

Lets start the day

Road to darkness

Who knows where

Living blind

Amongst fellow sufferers

The solution

Tragedies and deaths

Meeting Triton

Together with family

Once more about living blind

We became students

I established a school

Creation and difficulties

Learning together

On the beach

Winter wonderland

The test

Fallen again