[2][3] Garay had two children: Jànos, a water polo player and Mària, a swimmer.

[5] In 1925[5] and 1930, Garay captured the Individual European Sabre Championship gold medal.

[7] He won a gold medal in team saber at the 1928 Amsterdam Games.

[8] He was one of 437,000 Jews deported from Hungary to a concentration camp after Germany occupied the country in 1944.

[5] At Mauthausen concentration camp, where he had been taken, he was a prominent detainee and a Nazi hostage in their negotiations with the Soviets.