Joel Brand was a member of the Budapest Aid and Rescue Committee, an underground Zionist group in Budapest, Hungary, that smuggled Jews out of German-occupied Europe to the relative safety of Hungary, during the Holocaust.
Also inDeutsch
Photos 12
Oskar Schindler and Hansi Brand, mid-1960s![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.[18]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Auschwitz_II-Birkenau_%28main_gate%29.JPG/1280px-Auschwitz_II-Birkenau_%28main_gate%29.JPG)
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.[18]
Rezső Kasztner![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?"[36]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Adolf_Eichmann%2C_1942.jpg/500px-Adolf_Eichmann%2C_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?"[36]
Jews arriving at Auschwitz II from Hungary, c. May 1944. Most were sent straight to the gas chamber.
Moshe Sharett, head of the Jewish Agency's political department; second prime minister of Israel 1954-1955About this person
Joel Brand was a member of the Budapest Aid and Rescue Committee, an underground Zionist group in Budapest, Hungary, that smuggled Jews out of German-occupied Europe to the relative safety of Hungary, during the Holocaust. When Germany invaded Hungary in March 1944, Brand became known for his efforts to save the Jewish community from deportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland and the gas chambers there.
GermanyFame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.