Born: 9-Nov-1929
Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary

Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: Hungary
Executive summary: Holocaust survivor, literature Nobel

Military service: Hungarian Army (1951-53)

Deported to Auschwitz by the Nazis. Recipient, 2002 Nobel Prize for literature. Decried Schindler's List as "kitsch."

Wife: Magda

    Nazi Concentration Camp Inmate Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Zeitz 1944-45
    Nobel Prize for Literature 2002
    Hungarian Ancestry
    Jewish Ancestry

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