András Toma
András Toma | |
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| Birth name | Toma András |
| Other name(s) | András Tamás |
| Born | 5 December 1925 Újfehértó, Hungary |
| Died | 30 March 2004 (aged 78) Nyíregyháza, Northern Great Plain, Hungary |
| Allegiance | Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946) |
| Branch | Royal Hungarian Army |
| Years of service | 1944–2000 |
| Rank | Sergeant major (főtörzsőrmester) |
| Battles / wars | |
András Toma (5 December 1925 – 30 March 2004) was a Hungarian soldier taken prisoner by the Red Army in 1944, then discovered living in a Russian psychiatric hospital in 2000. He was most likely the last prisoner of war from the Second World War to be repatriated.
Because Toma never learned Russian and nobody at the hospital spoke Hungarian, he had apparently not had a single conversation in over 50 years, a situation of great interest for the fields of psychiatry and psycholinguistics.