Arrested by the Nazis in September 1939 in Hamburg, Germany; Mr. Landau was shipped to the notorious concentration camp Dachau, located in Bavaria about 15 km northwest of Munich. While in Dachau, Mr. Landau was murdered and cremated by the SS camp guards. His ashes,placed in a cigar box,were then delivered by an official of the Gestapo (Secret ...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Created:
1990?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial, Near Munich, Germany. Germany Farmers Working in Nearby Field, 1946. Remnants of crematorium chimney and memorial with an original furnace door embedded. Many German farmers living nearby claimed to have no knowledge of what had gone on there. It is inconceivable that they were unaware of what was taking place...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Front Entrance to Crematorium at Concentration Camp at Dachau, near Munich, 1946. Note the chimney for smoke from furnace where bodies were burned. Dachau, opened in April, 1933, was a camp for political prisoners and was never classified as an extermination camp. However, there is some debate about whether a gas chamber on the premises was ever...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
