Géza Ottlik is recorded at Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations - one of the non-Jews who risked everything to save Jewish lives during the Holocaust.
The record lists Géza Ottlik as Hungarian translator, writer, and contract bridge theorist (1912–1990).
Géza Ottlik was born at Budapest in 1912. His recorded nationality is Hungary. He was educated at Eötvös Loránd University.
By occupation Géza Ottlik was mathematician, writer and translator - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
Most rescuers said afterwards that they had done nothing remarkable. The historical record disagrees, which is the point of recording it.
Recognition: Kossuth Prize (1985), József Attila Prize (1981), Déry Tibor Prize (1984) and Righteous Among the Nations (1989).
Géza Ottlik died in 1990, aged 78. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Kossuth Prize — 1985
- József Attila Prize — 1981
- Déry Tibor Prize — 1984
- Righteous Among the Nations — 1989
- Worked as mathematician, writer and translator
- Educated at Eötvös Loránd University
