Career
Hungarian Championship European and World Championships Olympics He was one of 437,000 Jews deported from Hungary after Germany occupied the country in 1944. Garay was killed shortly thereafter, in 1945, in the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, shortly before the end of World World War World War II Janos Garay was not Jewish in religion. He always felt very strongly Hungarian.
He fought in the 1st World War as a Captain and was highly decorated.
He was part of the team who went to negotiate in England during the War before Hungary joined the Germans. He had a high position in the Office of Foreign Trade.
He was on the Gestapo list and therefore immediately taken from his office, as soon the Germans occupied Budapest. He was killed not because of his race or religious beliefs but for his action.
After the war he was declared as a political prisoner killed by the Germans.