12-20-2018, 01:04 PM
Mr Soros was born in Budapest on August 12, 1930, and by the Nazi invasion in 1944 was living a life of middle-class comfort with his father Tivadar, mother Elizabeth, and brother Paul in an idyllic home on Lupa Island in the Danube.
To escape the Gestapo death squads, the young Mr Soros was given the name Kiss Sandor, along with a set of Christian papers. He was then taken in by a man called Baumbach, also known as Baufluss, whom Tivadar paid to protect his son.
Baumbach was an official at the Ministry of Agriculture who had worked with Soros' father.
Baumbach was also a Nazi collaborator, and sometimes took the young boy on visits to write up lists of confiscated property.
This experience, which Soros had no control over, would later lead to inaccurate claims by Vladimir Putin and others that he chose to help the Nazis. Soros managed to survive the rest of the occupation, which cost the lives of 500,000 Hungarian Jews.
Aged 17, Soros fled to London and worked as a porter and waiter before enrolling in the London School of Economics. He moved to America and became a naturalized citizen in 1956, spending time as a trader before setting up his own hedge fund, Soros Fund Management, in 1969.
A ruthless speculator, in 1992 he became known as 'The Man Who Broke The Bank Of England' after he shorted the pound to send Britain crashing out of the ERM. The move earned him a billion dollars in a day.
Some of Soros' earliest political work was helping pro-democracy groups in the Soviet Union, an action that has gained him the hatred of Putin, who pines for the former USSR.
A key landmark in his political career was the establishment of the Open Society Foundation in 1984. This has invested money in a wide variety of causes including migration, drugs policy, and the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar.
He has also earned the ire of Donald Trump by becoming one of the largest donors to Hillary Clinton's 2016 US presidential campaign.
Trump has without basis accused Soros of everything from funding migrant caravans from Central America headed for the U.S. to paying Kavanaugh protesters.
Full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...-Year.html
To escape the Gestapo death squads, the young Mr Soros was given the name Kiss Sandor, along with a set of Christian papers. He was then taken in by a man called Baumbach, also known as Baufluss, whom Tivadar paid to protect his son.
Baumbach was an official at the Ministry of Agriculture who had worked with Soros' father.
Baumbach was also a Nazi collaborator, and sometimes took the young boy on visits to write up lists of confiscated property.
This experience, which Soros had no control over, would later lead to inaccurate claims by Vladimir Putin and others that he chose to help the Nazis. Soros managed to survive the rest of the occupation, which cost the lives of 500,000 Hungarian Jews.
Aged 17, Soros fled to London and worked as a porter and waiter before enrolling in the London School of Economics. He moved to America and became a naturalized citizen in 1956, spending time as a trader before setting up his own hedge fund, Soros Fund Management, in 1969.
A ruthless speculator, in 1992 he became known as 'The Man Who Broke The Bank Of England' after he shorted the pound to send Britain crashing out of the ERM. The move earned him a billion dollars in a day.
Some of Soros' earliest political work was helping pro-democracy groups in the Soviet Union, an action that has gained him the hatred of Putin, who pines for the former USSR.
A key landmark in his political career was the establishment of the Open Society Foundation in 1984. This has invested money in a wide variety of causes including migration, drugs policy, and the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar.
He has also earned the ire of Donald Trump by becoming one of the largest donors to Hillary Clinton's 2016 US presidential campaign.
Trump has without basis accused Soros of everything from funding migrant caravans from Central America headed for the U.S. to paying Kavanaugh protesters.
Full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...-Year.html