György Bálint

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.

György Bálint
In 2009
Born
György Braun

28 July 1919 (1919-07-28)
Gyöngyös, Hungary
Died21 June 2020 (2020-06-22) (aged 100)
Kistarcsa, Hungary
OccupationCandidate of Agricultural Sciences, journalist, politician

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]

References

  1. Krisztina, Pálúr (21 June 2020). "Meghalt Bálint gazda". index.hu.
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