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About the Interviewee
Ervin Deák was born in 1929 in Vienna, Austria. After the Anschluss -- when Nazi Germany annexed Austria -- his family returned to Hungary. After the German occupation of Hungary, the Deák family lived in a yellow-star house (houses designated for Jews, marked with a yellow star) under the protection of Swedish protective passports. However, they were deported to the Budapest ghetto. His sister was transferred to several labour camps. Ervin and his parents were liberated by Soviet soldiers from the Budapest ghetto on January 18, 1945.
Ervin worked in the Research Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and taught in the Institute of Mathematics of the ELTE Faculty of Science. The interview was conducted in Budapest, Hungary, in 2000.