George Tabori

George Tabori was a Hungarian writer and theater director.

Tabori was born in Budapest as Gyrgy Tbori, a son of Kornl and Elsa Tbori. His father Cornelius died in Auschwitz in 1944, but his mother and his brother Paul Tabori , managed to escape the Nazis. He adopted the three children of Viveca Lindfors, John, Lena and Kristoffer. As a young man, Tabori went to Berlin but was forced to leave Nazi Germany in 1935 due to his Jewish background. He first went to London, where he worked for the BBC and received British citizenship. In 1947 he immigrated to the United States, where he became a translator and a screenwriter including Alfred Hitchcocks movie I Confess .

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