Joel Brand

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.

25 April 1906

Born on the same birth date (25 April 1906): William J. Brennan Jr.

Born on the same birth day (25 April): Barbara Rittner • Björn Ulvaeus • Darren Holmes (baseball) • Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon • Howard R. Garis • Jacques Santini • Jay Park • Jon Olsen • Jordan Poyer • Joy Covey • Karel Appel • Luise Adolpha Le Beau • Marie-Michèle Gagnon • Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood • Michael van Gerwen • Paul Wassif • Sara Paxton • Tarcisio Burgnich • Tony Christie • William Merz

Born in the same month (April 1906): Alphonse-Marie Parent • Antal Doráti • Bea Benaderet • Bud Freeman • Eric Fenby • Faisal of Saudi Arabia • Fernando Germani • Hugh Gaitskell • Paul Sacher • Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten • Rafaela Aparicio • Samuel Beckett • Steve Anderson (hurdler) • Ted Morgan (boxer) • Victor Vasarely • William Joyce