Nicholas M. Nagy-Talavera or Miklós Nagy (February 1, 1929 – January 23, 2000) was a Hungarian-American dissident, historian, writer and professor.
He was born to prosperous merchants of Sephardic Jewish descent and spent his childhood in Oradea, Romania.
In 1944, when he was 14 years old, Nagy-Talavera was arrested by Hungarian police and handed over to German authorities, who transported him to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he encountered the notorious Josef Mengele.
Because of his dissident activities, he fell afoul of SMERSH, the Red Army's counter-intelligence branch.
He taught Russian and Eastern European History at California State University, Chico from 1967 until his retirement in 1991.