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HistoryFigure1929–2020

Region: Marosvásárhely / Târgu Mureș (Transylvanie), puis Budapest

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Born in Marosvásárhely (Târgu Mureș) in 1929 in a Jewish family of Transylvania, he was deported in 1944 (his mother and sister perished at Auschwitz) and survived. Becoming a photojournalist, he devoted a major part of his work to photographing and documenting the ancient Jewish cemeteries and Jewish memory of Transylvania. He settled in Hungary in 1988 and died in Budapest in 2020.

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