One of the prime objectives at Remember.org is bringing people closer to the stories of survival.
When the authors of this book asked us to share it with you, we found that the time Abraham Landau was in Auschwitz was about the same time as Abram Korn, as shared in Abe’s Story.
UPDATE: Resources on this page are no longer available, if they can be shared, we’d love to include it here.
Branded on My Arm and in My Soul: A Holocaust Memoir ~ by Abraham W. Landau
Abraham Landau grew up
in Wilczyn, Poland in the 1920s and ’30s
Photo Credit: Abe Landau, Landau family collection – Second from Left
Abe Landau was transported to a ghetto in
Zagorow, Poland in 1940.
The following year, an SS man burst into Abe’s home, grabbed him and threw him into the back of a truck bound for a labor camp in Inowroclaw. The sight of his mother chasing the truck and falling beneath the spray of machine-gun fire would be his final image of her or of anyone in his immediate family.
Photo Credit: Abe ID Card, Landau family collection
Abe spent the next five years in labor and
concentration camps throughout the Reich
He emerged from the nightmare a man of faith and endurance, his spirit still alive after surviving death marches, starvation, beatings and brutal transports in cattle cars crisscrossing Europe.
Photo Credit: Death March, Yad Vashem archives
Abe Landau, survivor, cantor, and activist,
after the Holocaust.
Starting anew in the United States, Abe rebuilt his life as a tailor—cantor, activist and founder of the Holocaust Memorial in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Photo Credit: Abe the Tailor , Spinner Publications
As the number of accounts that bear testimony to the horrors of the Holocaust grows increasingly finite, it becomes all the more important for us, now, to seek out stories such as Abe’s and learn what we can from them.
"He was at last able to summons the painful memories of those tragic events he lived through from 1939 to the end of 1944 — the day he finally exclaimed ‘I am free!’. ."
Jacques Lipetz
and the story related to the Jewish Refugee Committee of Manila (JRC)
"The Jewish colony in Manila was a mixture of German Jews who hailed largely from Breslau and Frankfurt, a variety of other European Jews from Eastern Europe mainly, a number of Sephards from Lebanon, Syria and Iraq and us."
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