Bronia Landau papers

Identifier
irn514023
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.345
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • Hebrew
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514023

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Bronia B. Landau

Biographical History

Bronia Bratt Landau (1926-2008) was born on Feb. 4, 1926, in Kromołów, Poland to Abraham and Rachel Bratt. She had three brothers and one sister, Malka. After the German invasion, her father and brothers were sent to concentration camps by 1941. In 1942, Bronia was sent to the Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp in Sagan, Germany (now Żagań, Poland), where she worked in a textile factory. In 1942, she was transported to the Grünberg subcamp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp, where she was imprisoned until 1945. Due to the approaching Russian army, she was sent on a death march from Grünberg to the Helmbrechts subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp in January 1945. In April 1945, the death march resumed in German-occupied Czechoslovakia, and Bronia sustained a severe head wound. In Wilkenau, she managed to escape. Through the kindness of those she encountered, she survived, kept her Jewish identity a secret, and found employment at a nursing home in Ronsberg until the liberation of Germany.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Bronia Bratt Landau donated this memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Oct. 1, 2003.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of two copies (one each in English and Hebrew), of "My Lost Childhood", a memoir by Bronia Bratt Landau, originally of Kromołów, Poland, which details her experiences between 1942-1945 in the Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp in Sagan, Germany (now Żagań, Poland), the Grünberg subcamp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp, and the Helmbrechts subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp. The memoir also discusses her escape from a death march in German-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1945. Also included are two copies of a photograph of the Bratt family from 1941. Both copies are annotated on the verso.

People

  • Landau, Bronia, 1926-2008.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Forced labor--1940-1950.
  • Death march survivors.
  • Holocaust, Jewish, (1939-1945)--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Escapes--Germany.
  • Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.