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I am one of the very few mathematicians who knew Paul’s aunt Irma before I knew him. She and my grandmother were neighbors during World War II. Aunt Irma was one of the few Jews in Budapest who survived the holocaust. This is how I met her since I was raised from this time by my grandmother and my aunt. Aunt Irma must have had good memories about my grandmother since they kept a good relationship, she regularly visited my grandmother even after her move to another place. She learned about my interest in mathematics and suggested I meet her nephew Pali who happened to be a mathematician. “Of course” I had never heard of him, but I was very glad to meet an old “real mathematician”. He was a very respectful old man (46!). I immediately understood that I was seeing an extraordinary personality.
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Katona, G.O.H. (2013). Memories on Shadows and Shadows of Memories. In: Graham, R., Nešetřil, J., Butler, S. (eds) The Mathematics of Paul Erdős II. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7254-4_14
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