- Document ID: 139316757
- Document Collection: „7-7-1-Archivdienst fuer Kriegsopfer Bruessel“
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Lejbus-Léon LANDAU was born in Radom, Poland. on 18.11.1906.
He was a doctor and married to Anna. Their son Alain was born on 03.03.1939.
On 11.09.1942, the three of them were arrested at their home in Hénin-Liétard (Belgium) and deported to Mechelen. On 17.09.1942 they arrived in Auschwitz.
Anna and Alain were gassed upon arrival. Anna was 35 years old, Alain 3.
Lejbus was registered in the camp. As a doctor, he witnessed the horror. Betty Truck, a journalist, published a book in 1975 about the doctors of Auschwitz, thanks to Lejbus’s testimony .[1]
She wrote: "Without the testimony of Dr. Léon Landau this book would never have been written. He helped us with all his strength in our research. With all his remaining strength. For he died suddenly during the night of May 10th to 11th, 1974. […] He witnessed the medical experiments that were carried out in the camp… He saw everything, recorded everything. […] We could have made him the hero of this book. He flatly refused: “I am just a man who spent three years of his life in a world of organized madness. I witnessed senseless crimes, perpetrated under the guise of idiotic scientific research. Thousands of men suffered what I suffered.” [2]
Lejbus was liberated by the Americans on April 29, 1945, and returned alone to Berck on June 15, 1945, having lost everything.
(taken and translated from facebook, by Franck Fajnkuchen)
Médecins de la honte : la vérité sur les expériences médicales pratiquées à Auschwitz / Betty Truck, Robert-Paul Truck. Presses de la Cité 1975. ↩︎
https://www.lavoixdunord.fr/art/region/berck-le-docteur-leon-landau-deporte-parmi-tant-d-autres-ia36b49106n1206794) ↩︎
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