‘A true giant of our community’

Holocaust survivor Ervin Hugo Vidor has been remembered as “a true giant of our community” after his passing aged 92.

Born in Budapest in 1932, Vidor arrived in Australia as a teenager in 1949 and he, along with his wife Charlotte, went on to co-found Toga, one of the nation’s leading property and hotel businesses.

“Despite his enormous success, Ervin remained a modest, generous and caring man with a strong social conscience,” Toga said in a statement.

“Ervin’s legacy extends beyond the bricks and mortar of buildings created.”

Vidor survived the Holocaust with his mother Piri in the Glass House, a fragile refuge under Swiss protection. His father died on the Russian front.