Sandra Brand

Sandra Brand

Sandra Brand was a writer, born in 1910, who survived the Holocaust and has written several books about the subject as well as lecturing. She died in 2005 [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02E2D8103EF931A15755C0A9639C8B63 Paid Notice: Memorials BRAND, SANDRA - New York Times ] ] .

The Simon Wiesenthal Center awards both the "Bruno Brand Tolerance Prize" and the "Sandra Brand Memorial Book Award" to non-fiction works on the subject of tolerance thanks to endowments from her [ [http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=242616 New York - Simon Wiesenthal Center ] ] [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3498/is_199809/ai_n8290407 Culture of Intolerance: Chauvinism, Class, and Racism in the United States.(Brund Brand Tolerance Prize awarded to Mark Nathan Cohen)(Review)] ] .

During the war, she pretended to be Cecilya Szarek (as described in her book "I Dared to Live"), and was helped by a German officer.

Her given name was Rosa, not Roma.

List of works

*I Dared to Live (ISBN 1887563504)
*Roma (ISBN 0738854859)
*Between Two Worlds (ISBN 0884002047)
*Glimpses of West Africa (ISBN 0738854875)
*Good People, Bad People (ISBN 1887563857)

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