Alexander Blass[1] Thomas Blass (December 25, 1941 – December 29, 2021) was an American social psychologist, Holocaust survivor,[1] and professor of psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Blass was born in Budapest, Hungary, during World War II.
In 1944, when he was a child, Nazis invaded Hungary and murdered over 550,000 of Blass's fellow Jews there.
After the war ended, he left Hungary with his mother, originally settling at a displaced persons camp in Hallein, Austria.
They remained there for a number of years before moving to Toronto, Canada, where Blass spent part of his childhood.