Joel Brand

Jeno Joel Brand ( born April 25, 1906 in Naszód, Transylvania, † July 13, 1964 in Bad Kissingen ) was a German left-wing socialist Zionist.

Life

Joel Brand grew up in Erfurt, where his family moved in 1910. His native language was German, but he remained a Hungarian citizen. He attended elementary and finally the secondary school Erfurt. Then he made a commercial and phone technical training, and then to work with telephone companies in Leipzig, Breslau, and Stuttgart. In 1930 he joined mbH founded by his father Max Brand Thüringische telephone company and was head of sales and leasing department.

Fire was hoping for a socialist revolution and for a response to the then mass unemployment and was active in Zionist and leftist organizations. On September 6, 1932 fire in Frankfurt am Main, was arrested on a warrant out. The accusation was betrayal of military secrets. On February 22, 1933, the Higher Regional Court in Kassel, he was sentenced to two years in prison. On September 6, 1934 Fire was released in Frankfurt / Main. On the very day of his release emigrated fire on his native Hungary to his sister living in Romania, in order to avoid further persecution. Not having received a residence permit in Romania, had to fire after half a year back to Hungary. But in Hungary he was "a stranger in his own country ", because he had to learn the local language only. Fortunately, still dominated part of the population from the Austro-Hungarian dominions of the German language. The political development in the German Reich and the Soviet Union made ​​him a Zionist. He worked in the Budapest telephone company. 1940 had to fire for half a year into the Jewish labor camp Szekesfehervar, where he had to wear a yellow Jewish binding and do physical work. But in his heart he had finished with Europe and wanted to emigrate to Palestine, so he joined some young Zionists with the same destination. In this group he met in 1944 Hansi Hartmann know, his future wife.

These Zionist group was active from 1942 as a charity that before the German invasion ( March 1944 ) in Hungary Jewish refugees from Germany helped, later rescued Jews in Hungary to Auschwitz from deportation.

After the German invasion of Hungary had to wear a Jewish star fire between 5 April and 17 May 1944. Subsequently, he was sent in May 1944 by Adolf Eichmann to Istanbul to act as a broker between the German Reich and the Allies: After a proposal by Heinrich Himmler up to 1 million Jews should exit against delivery of 10,000 trucks and other urgently needed be allowed goods ( " blood for goods" ). The Allies and the Jewish Agency, however, suspected a trick in this offer, which is why it did not come to this action.

After his mission had failed, fire went into the former British Mandate of Palestine. Later he joined the Israeli citizenship.

In September 1956 fire went from Israel to the Federal Republic of Germany and settled as a writer in Frankfurt am Main.

Publications

• Adolf Eichmann. Facts against myths. Ner Tamid - Verlag. Munich -Frankfurt 1961

Films and radio plays

After a presentation of Heinar Kipphardt emerged in the 1960s, two TV movies and a radio play.