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    George Soros [a] HonFBA (born György Schwartz on August 12, 1930) [1] [2] is a Hungarian-American [b] billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist. [7] [8] As of October 2023, he had a net worth of US$6.7 billion, [9] [10] having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, [11] of which $15 billion has already been ...

  2. Financier and philanthropist George Soros attends the official opening of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture at the German Foreign... George Soros, billionaire and founder of Soros Fund Management LLC, speaks at an event on day two of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,...

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  4. Nov 27, 2016 · Published Nov. 27, 2016. Updated Feb. 4, 2018. George Soros (Investor, Finanzier, Open Society Foundation), Foto: www.stephan-roehl.de (Image courtesy of Flickr) Claim: During World War II,...

  5. Jun 8, 2023 · Context. The Holocaust. Wikipedia. The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some...

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    Investor and philanthropist George Soros survived Nazi occupation followed by Communist-rule in Hungary in the mid-1940s and emigrated to London. There he studied economics and after earning his degree, moved to New York City in 1956, where he entered a life of finance. He began his renowned philanthropic efforts in 1979, and as of 2012, his lifeti...

    Soros was born György Schwartz in Budapest, Hungary, on August 12, 1930, to parents Tividar and Erzebat Schwartz. To avoid growing anti-Semite persecution, his father changed their surname to Soros in 1936. As a teenager, he survived the Nazi invasion and occupation of Hungary in 1944. After WWII ended, Soros emigrated from then-Communist-dominated...

    Soros graduated in 1952, and in September 1956, he sailed to New York and took a job at Wall Street brokerage firm F.M. Mayer. After working for a few more firms, in 1973, Soros set up his own hedge fund (the Soros Fund, soon after renamed the Quantum Fund and later the Quantum Fund Endowment) with $12 million from investors. The fund, with Soros a...

    Soros began his philanthropic activity in 1979, and he established the Open Society Foundations in 1984. The foundations fund a range of global initiatives “to advance justice, education, public health, business development and independent media.” The causes Soros helps with his foundations are numerous (the foundations’ list of activities goes on ...

    Soros has five children and has been divorced twice. He married his third wife, Tamiko Bolton, in 2013.

  6. May 30, 2018 · Personal life. George Soros has been married three times. He had two sons and a daughter with his first wife, German-born Annaliese Witschak, whom he married in 1960. The pair divorced in 1983 ...

  7. May 30, 2018 · Getty Images. His foundation is now the second-largest philanthropic organisation in the US - behind that of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. He focused on opening up cultural exchange with Eastern...

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