Géza Röhrig

Géza Röhrig was born on May 11 1967 in Budapest Hungary In the 1980s he was the frontman of an underground music band called Huckleberry also known as HuckRebelly whose concerts were almost always interrupted by the communist authorities At university he studied Hungarian and Polish and after a visit to Auschwitz during a study tour in Poland he decided to become a Hasidic Jew in Brooklyn He published two collections of poems on the theme of the Shoah Hamvasztókönyv literally Book of Incineration 1995 and Fogság Captivity 1997 He graduated from the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest with a degree in filmmaking He has lived in the Bronx borough of New York City since 2000 where he has been a kindergarten teacher and has published many collections of poetry