Ida Kohner Farkas (1895-1945) Ida was the oldest daughter of Adolf and Helene Kohner. She was a talented and intelligent woman, who married a well known painter, but was also a talented painter herself. Ida was exposed to a large range of talented artists through her father Adolf. He would host salons for painters, writers, etc. and financially supported many famous Hungarian artists. Ida met the painter Istvan Farkas, and married him in 1925. They then had three children, C

Zsuzsanna Kohner Henney Shaw (1923-1984) My grandmother was not the best mother to my father. If WWII and the subsequent Soviet occupation hadn’t happened, she would have most certainly had an easier time parenting a child. She was never particularly maternal, but access to resources and family help would have most likely improved the situation quite a bit. But the war had other plans for my family, and the ability to reliably and consistently parent just wasn’t in the cards

Auguszta Kohner (1909-1975) was the youngest child and only daughter of Baron and Baroness Alfred and Renee Kohner, members of a prominent Jewish Hungarian family that made much of their money in farming and banking. Auguszta and her brothers never thought it was odd that their parents were cousins, since at least three of her other aunt and uncle pairings were also cousins. In later years, Kohner descendants would blame the family’s frequent intermarriages on what they terme