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Menasha Levartov
Josef Bau is a Jewish artist from Cracow who falls in love with a girl named Rebecca Tannenbaum while they are both prisoners in the concentration camp Płaszów. He is married to her in a clandestine ceremony where his mother, Mrs. Bau, is present. On his wedding night, he thinks the camp guards have discovered him missing and bolts back to his barracks, but it turns out to only be a false alarm.
Josef Bau Quotes in Schindler’s List
The Schindler’s List quotes below are all either spoken by Josef Bau or refer to Josef Bau . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 26
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Josef married Rebecca on a Sunday night of fierce cold in February. There was no rabbi. Mrs. Bau, Josef’s mother, officiated. They were Reformed Jews, so that they could do without a ketubbah written in Aramaic. In the workshop of Wulkan the jeweler someone had made up two rings out of a silver spoon Mrs. Bau had had hidden in the rafters. On the barracks floor, Rebecca circled Josef seven times and Josef crushed glass—a spent light bulb from the Construction Office—beneath his heel.
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Josef Bau Quotes in Schindler’s List
The Schindler’s List quotes below are all either spoken by Josef Bau or refer to Josef Bau . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 26
Quotes
Josef married Rebecca on a Sunday night of fierce cold in February. There was no rabbi. Mrs. Bau, Josef’s mother, officiated. They were Reformed Jews, so that they could do without a ketubbah written in Aramaic. In the workshop of Wulkan the jeweler someone had made up two rings out of a silver spoon Mrs. Bau had had hidden in the rafters. On the barracks floor, Rebecca circled Josef seven times and Josef crushed glass—a spent light bulb from the Construction Office—beneath his heel.
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