Background
The son of Marketa and Karel Brady, and brother of Hana Brady, George Brady lived an ordinary childhood in interwar Czechoslovakia until March 1939, when Nazi Germany took control of Bohemia and Moravia.
The son of Marketa and Karel Brady, and brother of Hana Brady, George Brady lived an ordinary childhood in interwar Czechoslovakia until March 1939, when Nazi Germany took control of Bohemia and Moravia.
After that, his Jewish family encountered increasing restrictions and persecution by the German occupiers. They perished in Auschwitz before the end of the Second World War. The children were deported during May 1942 to Theresienstadt, a ghetto-camp not far from Prague, Czechoslovakia, where George shared kinderheim L417 with around forty boys including Petr Ginz and Yehuda Bacon.
George and Hana remained in Theresienstadt until 1944, when they were sent in separate convoys to Auschwitz—George in September to the work camp and Hana in October, when she was soon executed in the gas chamber.
George survived Auschwitz because of his trade as a plumber. Brady escaped during a death march to Germany during January 1945, the same month Auschwitz was liberated.
He "escaped" Czechoslovakia to Austria in 1949 and moved to Toronto, Canada, in 1951. Brady has made a living from the plumbing trade, which he learned in Theresienstadt.
Early in 1951 he established a plumbing company in Toronto with another Holocaust survivor.
He resides in Toronto.
Brady was made a member of the in 2008.