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 | | George Soros has stated repeatedly that, "I learned the art of survival from a grand master." Tivadar Soros, his father, is that virtuoso of confidence, self-possession and cunning he is referring to, and "Masquerade: Dancing around Death in Nazi-Occupied Hungary" is his compelling story. |
 | | The second oldest of 10 children of relatively prosperous and secularized Hungarian Jews, Tivadar Soros was born in Nyirgyhaza, 150 miles east of Budapest in the rich agricultural country bordering the northern edge of the Great Hungarian Plain. |
 | | Tivadar, to be sure, had slipped Baufluss, a man of German origin married to a Jew, several thousand pengos and so George was able to spent part of the war assuming a new identity and dining at such model estates (by then expropriated) as that of Baron Moritz Kornfeld, a Jewish aristocrat. |
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