This building did not seem particularly appealing from the outside, but the walls of the staircase were covered with graffiti that told tales of its past. My favorite one was written by tinkers/plumbers before 1990 (since it refers to Boulevard Lenin, which was the name of Erzsébet Boulevard between 1950 and 1990). Some other graffiti show that an inhabitant or a visitor of the building was deeply affected by 9/11, and someone else was a fan of Hungarian far-right rock bands.

The walls of the upper floors are also riddled with bullet holes from WW2 or 1956. The building’s inhabitants greatly suffered from both conflicts. The house was located in the ghetto, and several inhabitants were murdered during the Holocaust. In April 1957, four men who lived here (Béla Olajos, István Kispap, István Medvedovszki, and Miklós Pusztai) were arrested for participating in the uprising against the communist dictatorship a few months earlier.