Samuel Brand
Samuel Brand was a
Government of Israel.[1]
Immigration
Before the establishment of the state,
Berihah to bring Holocaust survivors to Palestine.[2]
After the
Government of Israel ended all restrictions to immigration. The Law of Return was passed in 1950, granting automatic citizenship to Jewish immigrants.[3]
Biography
Samuel Brand survived the Holocaust in the Buchenwald concentration camp, which was the largest on German soil. Although an old man by 1948, Brand chose to emigrate from post-war Germany to the newly created
1948 Arab-Israeli War had just begun.[1]
First official visa
Samuel Brand carried a piece of paper that was the first official
visa
issued by the Immigration Department of the Government of Israel. It said:
The right to settle in Israel is hereby given.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Golda Meir. My Life. G.P. Putnam's Sons. p. 229.
- ^ Berihah - Yad Vashem
- ^ The Law of Return: An Introduction