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

• 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.

• Rudolf Kastner at Kol Yisrael, early 1950s - cropped (2).jpg

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

• Adolf Eichmann, 1942.jpg

  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?"

• Selection on the ramp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, 1944 (Auschwitz Album) 3a.jpg

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

• Moshe Sharett, 1936.jpg

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

• Bundesarchiv Bild 183-S72707, Heinrich Himmler.jpg

  • For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme.
• Flickr - Government Press Office (GPO) - Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann walking in yard of his cell in Ramle prison.jpg

  Eichmann in his prison yard in Israel. He was hanged on 31 May 1962.