אימרה קרטס
הונגריה
ספרות

2002

LITRATURE
HUNGARY
IMRE KERTES

[ובלוחית נוספת]
אימרה קרטס
נולד בבודפשט, ב 1944, בגיל 15 גורש על ידי הנאצים לאושוויץ-ביקרנאו ולאחר מכן לבוכנוואלד, אך הצליח לשרוד. לאחר תום מלחמת העולם השנייה שב והחל לעבוד כעיתונאי. ב-1951 השתלט הקו הקומוניסטי גם על עיתונו והוא פוטר ונאלץ לעזוב את מקצוע העיתונות לחלוטין. לפרנסתו, הוא החל לעסוק בתרגום ספרים, בעיקר כתבים של הפילוסופים, מגרמנית להונגרית.

[And another plaque]
IMRE CURTIS
WAS BORN IN BUDAPEST, IN 1944, AT THE AGE OF 15, WAS DEPORTED BY THE NAZIS TO AUSCHWITZ-BIRKERNAU AND THEN TO BUCHENWAD, BUT MANAGED TO SURVIVE. AFTER THE END OF WORLD WAR 2 HE RETURNED TO BUDAPEST AND BEGAN WORKING AS A JOURNALUST. IN 1951 THE COMMUNIST LINE ALSO TOOK OVER HIS NEWSPAPER AND HE WAS FIRED AND FORCED TO LEAVE THE JOURNALISM PROFESSION ALTOGETHER. FOR A LIVING HE BEGAN TRANSLATING BOOKS, MAINLY WRITINGS OF THE GREAT PHILOSOPHERS, FROM GERMAN INTO HUNGARIAN

The sign is one of the signs on both sides of the boulevard of Nobel Laureates, and dedicated to Jewish Nobel laureates. Click for sign's details

It seems that the content in the second plaque was copied one by one from Wikipedia (in Hebrew), which is a pity that only the first paragraph was copied, and not the rest dealing with the books he wrote and for which he received the Nobel Prize.

The boulevard was photographed about two months before the sign was taken by the same photographer Click for a larger image

Error His name is spelled differently on the English language plaques.