The gift of the dozen photographs started with the curiosity of Henning Schultz, a geographer who lives in Copenhagen, about the identity of a 15-year-old Hungarian freedom fighter, identified only as "Erika", who appeared on the front page of Billed Bladet, with a machine gun in hand, on November 13, 1956. Schultz tried to find the girl in the picture, but instead found the 94-year-old Hansen and his other photographs of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Schultz contacted the Hungarian National Museum about the photographs, but it was short funding and could not purchase them. Schultz intervened, organising the photographs' purchase by two Danish foundations and their presentation to the Hungarian National Museum as a donation.
In the course of the arrangement, Schultz learnt that the young girl with the machine gun - one of the twelve photographs presented to the Hungarian National Museum - had been shot and killed by a Soviet machine gunner on November 7 or 8.
