Personal Life
Members of Polgár's family perished in the Holocaust, and her grandmother was a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
In August 2000, Polgár married Hungarian veterinary surgeon Gusztáv Font. They have two children, a boy named Oliver and a girl named Hanna. While Judit remained in Hungary, the rest of her family eventually emigrated: Sofia and her parents to Israel and later to Canada, and Susan to the United States.
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