Ernest Klein was a Canadian linguist, author, and rabbi. Born in Szatmárnémeti (Satu Mare), Partium, part of Hungary) at the time (now in Romania), he received his PhD at the University of Vienna in 1925. He was the rabbi of the Nové Zámky community, Czechoslovakia, from 1938 Érsekújvár, Hungary, now Slovak Republic, from 1929 to 1944. In 1944, he was deported to Auschwitz and later to the Dachau concentration camp, where he was liberated. Wikipedia
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