The big family

Vága, mid-1960s ; The man with the mustache was called Lajos Forró. On his left, behind him, are his daughter, Rozália Bugyinszky (née Forró) and her husband, Ferenc Bugyinszky. ; Children in the first row: János Bugyinszky (from the left) and László Bugyinszky (from the right). ; The others came to Vága from Miskolc, Hungary, to visit relatives, and their ancestors were from the village of Mátyusföld. ; The Hungarian schools were closed by Decree No. 1945/6 of the Slovak National Council, and then the Hungarian-Slovak population exchange agreement was signed in Budapest on February 27, 1946. The main goal of the ethnic cleansing settlements (population exchange) was to break up the Hungarian bloc in the southern highlands. ; János Bugyinszky's five-member family from Vágar is also resettled in Hungary.