Joel Brand

Author(s): Heinar Kipphardt
A docudrama that dramatizes the failed attempt to save the lives of Hungarian Jews. Joel Brand is a Hungarian leader whom Adolf Eichmann allows to negotiate with the British for transport trucks in exchange for the endangered Jews. Brand, instead is arrested by the British in Syria and when the negotiations fail, the Hungarian Jews are sent to their deaths.
Format: Drama
Cast Size:2F/16M

Snapshot

Original or Prominent Production:
Kammerspiele München, Munich, 1965, directed by August Everding
Nationality of Author: German
Original Language: German
Publisher:

Frankfurt-on-Main: Suhrkamp Verlag

Experience(s) Chronicled: Resistance

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