Lengyel Balázs (

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, 21 August 1918 – Budapest, 22 February 2007) was a Hungarian literary critic, and

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.Balázs Lengyel
– his activity to save Jews' lives during the

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, at

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website

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lengyel, Balazs 1918 births 2007 deaths Hungarian children's writers Hungarian literary critics Hungarian writers Hungarian Righteous Among the Nations 20th-century Hungarian translators