George Brady (born February 9, 1928) brother of Hana Brady (Bradova), was born in Nové Město na Moravě, Czechoslovakia. He is the son of Marketa and Karel Brady, and is a Holocaust survivor of both Theresienstadt (Terezin) and Auschwitz (Oswiecim, Poland). February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... Hana Brady Hana Brady (Hana Hanička Bradová, Germanized in the tag in her suitcase as Hanna Brady) (May 16, 1931 in Nové MÄ›sto na MoravÄ› – 1944) was a Jewish girl and Holocaust victim. ... Nové MÄ›sto na MoravÄ› (-Czech, German: Neustadtl) is a town in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. ... Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II. Early elements include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program established by Hitler that killed some 200,000 people. ... Fortress plan, 1869 Terezín (German: Theresienstadt) is name of former military fortress and garrison town in Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. ... Auschwitz, in English, commonly refers to the Auschwitz concentration camp complex built near the town of Oświęcim, by Nazi Germany during World War II. Rarely, it may refer to the Polish town of Oświęcim (called by the Germans Auschwitz) itself. ...

Early life and the Holocaust

George Brady lived an ordinary childhood in interwar Czechoslovakia until March, 1939, when Nazi Germany took control of Bohemia and Moravia. After that, his family, who was Jewish, encountered increasing restrictions and persecution by the German occupiers. By the year 1942, Brady's parents had been separated from their children and sent to prisons and concentration camps. They perished in Auschwitz before the end of the Second World War. George and Hana stayed with an aunt and uncle (the uncle was not Jewish, and thus the couple was a "privileged" mixed-marriage and not subject to deportation) for a short time until they too were deported to Theresienstadt, a ghetto-camp not far from Prague, Czechoslovakia. George and Hana remained in Theresienstadt until 1944, when they were sent in separate convoys—George to the work camp and Hana to the death camp of Auschwitz. George survived Auschwitz, and after learning that his immediate family was dead, eventually immigrated to Canada. 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full year calendar). ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Flag of Bohemia Bohemia (Czech: ; German: ) is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western and middle thirds of the Czech Republic. ... Flag of Moravia Moravia (Czech and Slovak: Morava; German: ; Hungarian: ; Polish: ) is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... A concentration camp is a large detention centre created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... A ghetto is an area where people from a specific racial or ethnic background are united in a given culture or religion live as a group, voluntarily or involuntarily, in milder or stricter seclusion. ... Nickname: City of a Hundred Spires Motto: Praga Caput Rei publicae Location within the Czech Republic Coordinates: Country Czech Republic Region Capital City of Prague Founded 9th century  - Mayor Pavel Bém Area    - City 496 km²  (191. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... A death camp is either a concentration camp, the important (though not necessarily single) function of which is to facilitate mass murder of the people deported into such a camp (such as the Nazis Auschwitz and Majdanek, which acquired their murderous functions only some time after they had been...

Life after the Holocaust

Brady has made a living from the plumbing trade, which he learned in Theresienstadt. He established a plumbing company with another Holocaust survivor in early 1951 in Toronto, where he now resides. Brady later married and became a father to three sons, and much later to a daughter named Lara Hana. A plumber wrench for working on pipes and fittings Plumbing, from the Latin for lead (plumbum), is the skilled trade of working with pipes, tubing and plumbing fixtures for potable water systems and the drainage of waste. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ...

References

• Karen Levine, Hana's Suitcase—A True Story. Albert Whiteman & Co., Morton Grove, IL., 2003.

External links

• Online chronicle