Joel Brand

Joel Brand (25 April 1906 – 13 July 1964) was a Jew from Hungary. He helped to save many lives of Jews of Hungary from death. He saved them from being sent to Nazi Germany’s death camp at Auschwitz concentration camp.

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  German-occupied Europe, 1942

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  Auschwitz II gatehouse from inside the camp. The tracks were completed in 1944 to take the Hungarian Jews straight to the gas chambers in crematoria II and III.

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  Rudolf Kastner (1906–1957) in broadcasting booth at Kol Yisrael, official Israeli state radio station, where he hosted a program in Hungarian.

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  Adolf Eichmann, c. 1942. "Eichmann, resplendent in his SS uniform, stood in front of his desk and started barking at Brand: 'You ... do you know who I am?"

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  Jews arriving at Auschwitz II from Hungary, c. May 1944. Most were sent straight to the gas chamber.

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  Moshe Sharett, head of the Jewish Agency's political department; second prime minister of Israel 1954–1955

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  • For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme.
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  Eichmann in his prison yard in Israel. He was hanged on 31 May 1962.