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Mayer was born in Switzerland to Eugene and Hedy Mayer, Hungarian-Jewish parents who were passengers on the Kastner train during the Holocaust.
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Egon Mayer
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Brooklyn College; Rutgers University.
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Mayer"s mother was pregnant with him at the time. The train left Budapest in June 1944 after Rudolf Kastner, a Hungarian lawyer, negotiated with Adolf Eichmann to allow 1,684 Jews safe passage to Switzerland. The passengers arrived in Switzerland in two stages – one in August 1944, the second in December – the month in which Mayer was born – after a stop at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Mayer created and maintained a website in Kastner"s memory.
Mayer"s family returned to Budapest when the war ended, then emigrated to the United States in 1956. Mayer studied at Brooklyn College (City University of New York) and the New School for Social Research, obtaining his Doctor of Philosophy in sociology in 1975 from Rutgers University.
Mayer died on January 30, 2004, aged 59, from undisclosed causes, in Laurel Hollow, New New York
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