| 词条 | Leslie Blau |
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Leslie Blau (known in Hungarian language as Blau Laszlo) is a noted author, historian, and survivor of the Holocaust. Blau was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1921. He studied in the Jewish High School of Budapest. As a youngster, he spent his summer months in the town of Bonyhád. He survived the horrors committed to the Jews during World War II by a stroke of luck, and after the war, he settled in the town on Bonyhad, where he married a local girl, Sara Kuttner. In 1956, during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he and his family fled communist Hungary for a safer haven: USA. He arrived in Boro Park, Brooklyn, New York where he has lived for over fifty years. After five years of extensive investigation and research, Mr. Blau finally published his work, "Bonyhad: A Destroyed Community" in 1994. . In 2008, a Hungarian translation of the book was published with the amended title, "Bonyhad: A Destroyed Jewish Community", in Hungarian, "Bonyhad: Egy Elpusztitot Zsido Kozosseg". The author visited Bonyhad with his wife, daughter and nephew for a presentation of the book at Bonyhad's City Hall, where he was presented a Distinguished Citizen of Bonyhad award by Mayor Potapi Arpad. Just prior to his trip to Hungary he was the subject of a profile, "A Brooklyn Gentleman", by Reuters correspondent, Mirjam Donath. Mr. Blau's research has been cited by such prestigious scholars as Sir Martin Gilbert (see [https://books.google.com/books?id=s18psZJJjbYC&pg=PA425&lpg=PA425&dq=%22leslie+blau%22+-doris&source=bl&ots=jssPacnQ4g&sig=nDGfMA2S2PhpoCsNEWnuW9tvqRI&hl=en&ei=uTFTTJeqAoP98AbCvIG7BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CDIQ6AEwCTgo#v=onepage&q=%22leslie%20blau%22%20-doris&f=false]). As an active member of the Jewish community in Boro Park, Mr. Blau sits on the executive committee of B'nai Israel of Linden Heights {{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. He also hosts there a yearly event to recount tales of the Holocaust for the benefit of the next generation [https://groups.yahoo.com/group/kghsingles/message/12623]. Works
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