Sandor Berger

Sandor Berger (1925-2006) was an outsider writer and poet born in Csenger, Hungary on 7 July, 1925.

Biography
Berger was born in Csenger, Hungary on 7 July, 1925 to Simon Berger and Jozefa Pepi Berger (née Schoner). He had two brothers, Elemer and Miksa, who had moved to Argentina before the arrival of the Nazis in Hungary. He also had two sisters, Olga and Rosa Muenz. Berger was taken to Auschwitz concentration camp with his family in 1944, and later to Ohrdruf concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp. Olga, their parents, and grandparents were murdered at Auschwitz. Rosa survived the Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps and later emigrated to Canada in 1949.

Berger was liberated in 1946 and returned to Hungary before moving to Germany. In 1949 he moved to Australia.

In the early 1950s Berger moved to Sydney. He worked at many jobs, but was driven to self-publish numbers books and booklets of poetry, as well as his letters to newspaper editors.

In 1964 Berger was featured in a television documentary The Glittering Mile.

Berger had lifelong battles with the authorities and served time in prison. It is uncertain what medical diagnoses were made, but he appears to have suffered from a persecution complex for much of his life in Australia. He was a well-known sight on Sydney streets, wearing a placards and handing out leaflets with the message "Psychiatry is Evil".

Sandor Berger died in 2006 and was buried in a public grave at Rookwood Cemetery.