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Joseph Bau: artist, counterfeiter and Mossad agent

This program is sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee
he entire community is invited Adolph Eichmann to justice in Israel. 1960s and 1970s bore his title credits. is also on the Board of Directors of
to attend a special presenta- “Survivor” is somehow too passive Ever the innovator, Bau devised unique Friends of the Hebrew University, a
Ttion on Wednesday, January 15 a word to describe Joseph Bau. Many Hebrew fonts for each movie. representative of Friends of the Joseph
at 1:30 p.m. at Temple Beth Sholom may remember the moving representa- Chezi (Eli) Bartov, an Israeli Bau Museum in the United States, and
(1050 S. Tuttle Avenue, Sarasota) to tion of his clandestine concentration- American, will present Joseph Bau’s a member of Friends of the Meir Amit
hear the amazing story about Joseph camp marriage in Thomas Keneally’s story in a multimedia format. Bartov Center of Intelligence. He lectures on
Bau. The program is co-sponsored by book Schindler’s Ark, and later in Ste- has lived in Fort Lauderdale for the the Jewish influence on Far East and
Temple Beth Sholom Continuing Edu- ven Spielberg’s film Schindler’s List. past 35 years. He is a retired Israel De- Israeli intelligence.
cation, Men’s Club and Sisterhood, In 1941, the family was moved to fense Forces (IDF) officer from a spe- Reservations for the program may
and The Jewish Federation of Sara- the nearby Plaszow forced-labor camp. cial operations unit. He holds a B.S. in be made at www.templebethsholomfl.
sota-Manatee. There, guards made Joseph draw maps Industrial Engineering and an MBA in org/events or by calling the Temple
While living in the Krakow Ghet- and inscribe signs in gothic lettering. Marketing from Hofstra University. He Beth Sholom office at 941.955.8121.
to, Joseph Bau kept his family alive by Salvation came in 1944, when German was also a lecturer at Hofstra. The cost of advance reservations (by
forging papers in exchange for food. philanthropist and industrialist Oskar Presently, Chezi Bartov is Presi- Friday, January 10) is $8; the cost of
He was also one of the Jews saved Schindler spirited him away to his mu- dent of the Israeli AIPAC chapter. He admission at the door is $10.
by Oskar Schindler. In Israel, he led nition’s factory in Czechoslovakia.
a double life as an animator, while he Joseph Bau and his family arrived
secretly worked with the Mossad. He penniless to Israel in 1950. He almost The dynamic duo –
forged documents for Israeli spies and singlehandedly created Israel’s anima-
the passport that was used to bring tion industry. Most Israeli films of the doing what we do BEST

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