
Searching through Fortepan


Fortepan is an excellent site for finding old Hungarian photos.
"This website was launched in 2010, and it initially contained photographs found randomly in the streets of Budapest. The archive has expanded since then through donations from families, amateur and professional photographers, along with public collections. The images on the website are selected by editors."
I put the Kohner name just for curiosity. Surprisingly, I didn't find much, but I did find this 1959 picture of the interior of my family's summer home in Buda.
We know it was used as a children's home after everything was nationalized, so I assume this is a photo of some of the students living there at the time.
When we visited the house in 2023, the house hadn't been lived in since at least 2013 (there was a calendar from that year on the wall).
I would love to know what happened to some of the children in the picture.