[1] Being Jewish, the family had to escape from the Nazi persecution so Szekeres took a job in Shanghai, China.

There they lived through World War II, the Japanese occupation and the beginnings of the Communist revolution.

In 1963, the family moved to Sydney, where Szekeres took a position at the University of New South Wales, and taught there until his retirement in 1975.

Szekeres worked closely with many prominent mathematicians throughout his life, including Paul Erdős, his wife Esther, Pál Turán, Béla Bollobás, Ronald Graham, Alf van der Poorten, Miklós Laczkovich, and John Coates.

[4] Subsequently, George and Paul wrote a paper (1935) that generalises this result; it is regarded as one of the foundational works in the field of combinatorial geometry.