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Les (Laszlo) Banos Leslie Banos was born Laszlo Banos on August 16, 1923, to Bertha and Morris Banos in Nyirbator, Hungary. His father was Jewish, but his mother was not. Leslie's mother died before he turned one, so he was raised by his maternal aunt, Margrit Vanscak, and her husband in Budapest. He served in the Hungarian Nazi SS division while a spy for the Allies' OSS and surreptitiously used his SS role to hide and assist Jews, enabling a number of them to avoid concentration camps. He fled Hungary in 1947 when he was alerted that the Russian army was planning his arrest, and spent the next 3 years in a refugee camp in Bamberg, Germany. It was there that he met and married Georgine Bohrer. Their first son was born in November of 1950 and and in 1951 his family immigrated to the United States, finding their permanent home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvanis