Joseph Bau (Hebrew: יוסף באו; 18 June 1920 – 24 May 2002) was a Polish-born Israeli artist, animator and writer. A survivor of The Holocaust, Bau was sent to Brünnlitz labor camp operated by Oskar Schindler. The wedding between him and his wife Rebecca Tennenbaum, secretly conducted in the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, is portrayed in Steven Spielberg's movie Schindler's List. He later became known as the "Israeli Walt Disney".
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Josef Bau 13 June 1920 Krakow, Poland
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Died |
24 May 2002 (aged 81) Tel Aviv, Israel
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Zodiac | Gemini |
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