Bela Polgar was born on the 31st of August 1893 in Szekszard in southern Hungary. He lived in the town of Paks and was married to Julia (née Grunfeld). They were both doctors. Polgar was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on a transport that departed the Kistarcsa transit camp in Hungary on the 14th of July 1944. On arrival, he passed the selection, received the number 6050B and became an inmate of the camp. This was the final transport from Hungary that Adolf Eichmann sent of his own initiative. Among the deportees on this transport were many doctors whose deportation had been delayed until the last moment in order to take advantage of their services.
