Zoltan Erenyi was born on October 14, 1920 in Rakoscsaba, Hungary (today part of the municipality of Budapest, but at that time a separate village). He was incarcerated in Hungarian slave labor camps from 1939-1942, and then in Mauthausen and Gunskirchen concentration camps in Austria until 1945. After the end of World War II, he was in a Displaced Persons camp until 1949, when he arrived in New York City on a US Troop transport ship sponsored by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency. He gained US citizenship in 1954, and graduated from City College with honors in English in 1961, the same year in which he won second prize for his short story "The Tzaddik." He received his MSW from New York University in 1969, and retired from Civil Service in 1982. He wrote many short stories, some of which were published in major newspapers and journals, and he published a novel entitled "Your Brother's Blood" in 1994. He died in New York City on October 26, 2008.
From the description of Zoltan Erenyi papers 1953 - 1996 (Yeshiva University). WorldCat record id: 722013292
