Jonas Landau memoirs

Identifier
irn506456
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1996.A.0574
  • RG-02.214
Dates
1 Jan 1993 - 31 Dec 1993
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Milton Goldhair donated the memoir to the Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996.

Scope and Content

Contains Jonas Landau's memoir relating to his childhood in prewar "Stolpce" (Stolbce, Poland, now Stolbëisy, Belarus); the shooting of Jews by the Nazis after they occupied the town in June 1941; his work in the local railroad station; conditions in the ghetto; his escape from the ghetto in 1942; and his experiences from 1942-1944 as a partisan in a predominately Jewish detachment of the Zhukov group in Byelorussia (Belarus). After liberation in July 1944, he returned to Poland where he learned his family had not survived. He decided to emigrate to Palestine, but en route in Germany he met and married his wife, Wanda. They lived in Heidenheim, Germany, until 1949 when they immigrated to the United States. His memoir is typewritten with handwritten editing notations.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Jonas Landau

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