Gad Granach (29 March 1915 – 6 January 2011)
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known for his roles in ''

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''. Gad Granach fled Germany at the age of 21 during the rise of Nazism, immigrating to the then-British Mandate of Palestine in 1936. He published a memoir entitled ''Where is Home? Stories from the Life of a German-Jewish Émigré'' (originally in German: ''Heimat los! Aus dem Leben eines jüdischen Emigranten'') recounting of his early life in Berlin and subsequent life in Israel.

Literature

* Gad Granach: ''Where is Home? Stories from the Life of a German-Jewish Émigré'', Atara Press, Los Angeles 2009, * Gad Granach: ''Heimat los! Aus dem Leben eines jüdischen Emigranten'', Ölbaum-Verlag, Augsburg 1997, ; Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt 2000, , Random House/Bertelsmann, Munich 2008, * Alexander Granach: ''Da geht ein Mensch'', Ölbaum-Verlag, Augsburg 2003, * Alexander Granach: ''There Goes a Mensch: A Memoir'', Atara Press, Los Angeles 2019, * Alexander Granach: "From the Shtetl to the Stage: The Odyssey of a Wandering Actor" Transaction Publishers, 2010.

Film

*'' Israel, Why ( Pourquoi Israel)'', directed by

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, France, 1973 *''Granach der Jüngere'', directed by Anke Apelt, Germany, 1997 *''Alexander Granach - Da geht ein Mensch'', directed by Angelika Wittlich, Germany, 2012

Audio recordings

*''Ach So! Gad Granach und

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on Tour'' CD, Ölbaum-Verlag, Augsburg 2000,

References

1915 births 2011 deaths People from Rheinsberg Actors from the Province of Brandenburg German Jews German memoirists German male non-fiction writers German emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Israeli people of German-Jewish descent Male actors from Brandenburg {{Germany-writer-stub