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Peter H. Hennin (Born 03.11.1975 Budapest, Hungary) is a British London based photographer and peace activist with numerous publications about political conflicts and war zones around the world. Mr Hennin worked in associations with other photographers such as Sue Foll for The Sunday Times. He is also known as being a member of the British Labour Party and allegedly has close relationship with the popular but by some influential donors considered to be controversial current Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Earlier and current life Peter was born into a Soviet ruled Hungary in 1975 and to a higher middle class family. He was a first child to his parents Lazlo and Eva and his younger sister Henriette was born in 1979. His father Lazlo Hunya Jr was born to a wealthy Hungarian Jewish family in the South part of Hungary called Endröd with ancestors of the first Jewish Royal Dynasty of Shlomo Ben Hunya. Lazlo Hunya Sr. married to a wealthy Jewish widow Margaret David who was a heiress of one of the wealthiest Jewish families in the area at the time. The Hunya Family was well known to be rich farm owners and owned lands, properties and businesses around the country. After the First World War the family was a subject of public humiliation and their properties were seized under the new political power in the country the Hungarian Communist Party's land reform laws. The Hunya's lost their position in the society as well as their wealth and sources of income which led directly to numerous tragedies within the family such a suicide. Lazlo Hunya Sr the Grandfather of Peter H. Hennin fought in the WW-I. and the sole survivor of three Hunya brothers after the communists takeover in Hungary. After all hardships Lazlo and Margaret married and had a son Lazlo Hunya Jr who attended the best Universities of Hungary at the time and later became the CEO of the VIDEOTON  in Szekesfehervar, Hungary a Computer Science and Electronics manufacturer company the largest of its kind at the time behind the Iron Curtain. Mr Lazlo Hunya was a long time member of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party that had been in power in the country from the failed Hungarian Revolution against the Soviet Union in 1956 to the fall of communism in 1989 and the death of PM Janos Kadar a former Marxist revolutionary who held his position as PM for more than thirty years. His mother Eva was born as second daughter to a well known Hungarian Catholic merchant family the Meszaros Family. The Meszaros Family was a known to be a successful owners of small commercial businesses and shops around the country. Subsequently to the Communist takeover they also lost their businesses and was forced to hide their Jewish identities from the ever growing threat of nationalism around the country led by Admiral Miklos Horthy the Regent of Hungary as well as the threat of the German National Socialist Party led by Adolf Hitler. The wars and social unrest led both families to unite and convert to Catholic Christianity. Peter H. Hennin (Where the H in the middle stands for Hunya) was born and baptised as Peter Hunya in Szekesfehervar (Alba Regia) in 1975 and only added the name surname Hennin after his deceased sister later at the time of his neutralisation as a British citizen. He resides in London and works as a independent photographer, political and peace activist with interest to help people in need especially in war torn countries in the Middle East.