Samu Stern

Jewish community leader and businessman, president of the Pest Israelite Congregation (as of 1929) and of the National Office of Hungarian Israelites (as of 1932). Served as president of the Central Jewish Council from 21 March 1944 to the end of October 1944, when he went into hiding. Stern survived the Holocaust, returning to Budapest, where he died two years later. 

The YIVO encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe / ed. G. D. Hundert. - Yale Univ., 2008. - v. 2, p. 1808