George Soros Parents: Meet Elizabeth and Tivadar Soros

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George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary to his parents; Elizabeth Soros (mother) and Tivadar Soros (father).

His mother operated a successful silk store while his father was a lawyer and a renowned Esperanto author who edited the Esperanto literary magazine, Literatura Mondo.

His father, Tivadar had also been a prisoner of war during and after World War I until he escaped from Russia and rejoined his family in Budapest, the Capital of Hungary.

Elizabeth and Tivadar married in 1924. Initially, their family name was ‘Schwartz’. In 1936, they changed it to ‘Soros’ due to antisemitic (a form of racism) in Hungary.

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