György Bálint
György Bálint | |
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| Born | György Braun 28 July 1919 Gyöngyös, Hungary |
| Died | 21 June 2020 (aged 100) Kistarcsa, Hungary |
| Occupation(s) | Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, journalist, politician |
György Bálint (originally surname Braun;[1] 28 July 1919 – 21 June 2020) was a Hungarian horticulturist, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, journalist, author, and politician who served as an MP.
Biography
Bálint's parents Braun Izidor and Koch Rozália were Jewish from a long tradition of farming. He graduated from the Royal Hungarian Institute of Horticulture in 1941.[2] His parents and their children were deported to a concentration camp during the Holocaust; only Bálint and one of his sisters survived. He was taken first to Mauthausen and then to the extermination camp in Gunskirchen.[3] He weighed 42 kilos when he escaped in 1945. [4]
He was a horticulturist, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, journalist, author, and politician who served as an MP.[5][6][7]
He died at 100 years of age in 2020.[8]
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