Survivors of auschwitz biography of abraham
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Abraham Goldberg
Abraham Goldberg was born in 1923 in Altburg, Germany, one or two children to a family of Polish origin. In October 1938, all the Jews of Polish origin were deported to Poland, and Abrahams family moved to Lvov.
In 1941, the day of the German invasion of Lvov, Ukrainian policemen entered Abraham's house and took him to the central prison. In the prison the Jews were ordered to run between two rows of German policemen who had bayonets attached to their rifles with which they wounded the Jews or stabbed them to death.
When it was his turn to run, Abraham pretended to stumble, allowing the wounded and dead to fall on top of him. He was, therefore, loaded into a carriage together with the corpses and the wounded, from which he managed to flee to his home.
In November 1941, the Jews of Lvov were moved into the ghetto, and soon after, due to the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, over 30,000 people perished from an outbreak of typhus. Abraham and his father were deported to the Janowska camp, which was infamous for the cruelty of its commanders. Abraham's mother, who feared for her son and husband's fate, managed to persuade a Wermacht officer by the name of Hans Hartman to ask that they be transferred to his unit. Gebauer, the commander of Janowsb, told
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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.
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
Abe Landau was transported to a ghetto inZagorow, 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.
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.
Abe Landau, survivor, cantor, and activist,
after the Holocaust.
Starting anew in the United States, Abe rebuilt his life as a tailor—cantor, activist an
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Abraham Beem
Born June 13, 1934 - Leeuwarden, Holland
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