György Bálint


György Bálint 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. 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. He weighed 42 kilos when he escaped in 1945.
He was a horticulturist, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, journalist, author, and politician who served as an MP.
He died at 100 years of age in 2020.