George Brady

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George Brady (2016)

George Brady (* 9. February 1928 in Nove Mesto , Czechoslovakia as Jiří Brady ; † 12. January 2019 in Toronto , Canada ) was a Canadian Holocaust survivor of Terezin and Auschwitz and businessman. In 2008 he received the Order of Ontario .

Life

Early life and the Holocaust

As the son of Markéta and Karel Brady and brother of Hana Brady George Brady spent his childhood in the interwar period in Czechoslovakia . After Nazi Germany established the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in March 1939 , his Jewish family suffered from increasing restrictions and persecution by the German occupiers. In 1941, Brady's parents were separated from their children and held in prisons and concentration camps . They died in Auschwitz before the end of World War II . George and Hana stayed with an aunt and a Catholic uncle for several months . Since he was not a Jew, the couple was a "privileged" mixed marriage and the aunt could not be deported. The children were deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp not far from Prague in May 1942 , where George shared the L417 children's home with around forty boys, including Petr Ginz , Yehuda Bacon and Kurt Kotouc .

George and Hana stayed in Theresienstadt until 1944, when they were sent to Auschwitz in separate transports - George in September to the labor camp and Hana in October, where she was murdered in the gas chamber as soon as she arrived . George was sent to the Gleiwitz I subcamp , where he worked on repairing damaged railroad cars. Brady escaped during a death march to Germany in January 1945, and Auschwitz was liberated that same month.

Life after the Holocaust

George Brady with his wife (2016)

Brady traveled a long way to Nové Město until May 1945 , where he reached his aunt and uncle and learned from them that his parents had died in Auschwitz. After the communist coup in 1948 , he escaped from Czechoslovakia to Austria in 1949 and moved to Toronto , Ontario, Canada two years later .

Brady lived from the plumbing trade , in which he had been trained in Theresienstadt. In early 1951, he and another Holocaust survivor founded a plumbing shop in Toronto and employed 200 people. He married and had three sons and a daughter, Lara Hana Brady. He lived in Toronto.

George Brady died of heart failure in Toronto on the night of January 12, 2019, at the age of 90 .

Awards

Brady was named a 2008 Order of Ontario member in the Human Rights category . Brady reported on his Holocaust experiences in events around the world. For his commitment he received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2013 and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 .

On October 28, 2016 (State Day), he was to receive an award from Czech President Miloš Zeman for his lifelong campaign to commemorate the Holocaust. But after Brady's nephew , the Czech Minister of Culture Daniel Herman , met the Tibetan exiled leader Dalai Lama against the will of the president , the president decided against the award of the honor so as not to strain relations with China.

Brady received numerous recognitions in the Czech Republic, including from the House of Representatives , from the cities of Prague and Brno and from the University of Olomouc .

Web links

Commons : Jiří Brady  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Holocaust survivor George Brady has died. In: Watson.ch. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b ORF at / agencies red: Holocaust survivor George Brady has died. In: ORF . January 12, 2019, accessed January 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d A brother remembers his murdered sister. In: Tagesspiegel . Retrieved January 13, 2019 .
  4. ^ A b Former premier David Peterson to get Order of Ontario. In: Toronto Star . Retrieved January 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Kurt Kotouc "Hana's story. Retrieved January 13, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b Holocaust survivor Jiri Brady died at the age of 90. In: Kathpress . Retrieved January 13, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b Canada - Holocaust survivor George Brady dies ( Memento from January 13, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ Order of Ontario appointments announced. Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration Ontario, January 15, 2009, accessed January 13, 2019 .
  9. ^ Jiří (George) Brady - Lidé. In: Česká televize . Retrieved January 13, 2019 .
  10. ↑ a b The national holiday scandal is looming: no medals for Holocaust survivors. In: Radio Praha . Retrieved January 12, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Holocaust survivor George Brady has died. In: The press . January 12, 2019, accessed January 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Brady, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brady, Jiří (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian Holocaust survivor from Theresienstadt and Auschwitz and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadtl , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 2019
Place of death Toronto , Canada