Watch the testimony of Josef Bau, who describes the arrival to Brnenec.
Josef Bau was born in 1920 and trained as a graphic artist before the war. This training allowed him to forge documents for the Germans, and for Jews in Krakow to survive the ghetto. He was secretly married to Rebecca Tennenbaum during the war. The marriage was shown in the film "Schindler’s List: by Steven Spielberg. The Nazi soldiers in Brnenec had orders to kill the Jews and had started to dig a trench to put the dead bodies. Josef Bau forged the documents to send the most dangerous soldiers away to the war front. He emigrated to Israel in 1950, and continued to forge documents for the Israeli secret services, as well as working as a graphic artist and celebrated animator of films, becoming known as “the Israeli Walt Disney”. He wrote his memoirs “Dear God, Have You Ever Gone Hungry?” and had two daughters, Hadassa and Clila. He died in 2002, aged 81.