Abraham Landau's tale - "Survived 14 Nazi camps, all other 95 members of his family holocausted"

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Abraham Landau was a tireless old fanatic who worked extensively to promote the Holocaust™.

He was born in Wilchen, Poland in 1922.

Abraham says he spent 5½ years in 14 different Nazi camps, including Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He was liberated from Bergen-Belsen in 1945.

He claims he was the "only survivor of his 95–member family."

Landau was the driving force behind the construction of a Holocuast Memorial monument in the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Abe was also among the Holocaust survivors who gave testimony to director Steven Spielberg for his Shoah Foundation documentary on the Holocaust.

He was a member of the B'nai B’rith National Speakers Bureau and spread the propaganda of the Holocaust to schools and students throughout the New England region.

Over his life, Landau made "innumerable" visits to schools, where he shared his Holocaust tale with young children so that another Holocaust "will never happen again."

Article #1: "Holocaust survivor Abraham Landau dies"

See also 14-camp version as promoted in the kickstarter.com site, gathering money for Abe's book:

Branded on My Arm and in My Soul --- A Holocaust Memoir
This is the Holocaust memoir of Abe Landau, survivor of 14 Nazi labor and concentration camps.

Article #2: "Branded on My Arm and in My Soul --- A Holocaust Memoir"

Another reference which includes the 14 camp version can be found at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Archives of the Center for Jewish Culture, in its Manuscript Collection on Abraham Wolf Landau:

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Archives and Special Collections
Archives of the Center for Jewish Culture

Abraham Wolf Landau (1922-2000)
Papers, 1939-1996

Manuscript Collection, MC 5
Guide and collection inventory

Extent: 5 linear feet (2 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 19 videocassettes)

Biographical note: Abraham W. Landau was born April 25, 1922 in Wilczyn, Poland. In 1931, at age 9 he and his family moved to Kalisz, Poland, and then back to Wilczyn in 1933. In March of 1940, the family was evacuated, along with thousands of other Jews, and sent to the infamous Zagorow ghetto.

In August of 1941, Landau was separated from his family and sent to ZAL Inowroclaw, a forced labor camp. He would never see them again. Over a period of approximately five years (to April 1945), Landau would endure the dehumanizing conditions of fourteen forced labor and concentration camps administered by the Nazi party. The following is a chronological list of every camp in which Landau was held: Inowroclaw, Rabinek (Sept. 1941), Gutenbrum (August 1942), Gleiwitz (February 1943), Auschwitz Birkenau (August 1943), Dachau (Feb 1944), Buchenwald (April 1944), Lagisza (May 1944), Bedzin (June 1944), Buna Monowitz (July 1944), Gleiwitz (January 19, 1945), Dora (January 1945), Ellrich (February 1945), Bergen-Belsen (April1945).

After spending nearly a month on the “death train,” Landau and other prisoners of war were liberated by British and American troops at Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945. Although Landau was free from the Nazis, he was alone without a family (in total, he had lost 95 members of his family) and had only a few friends from the liberation site. Weighing a mere 79 pounds, he spent months (April to August) in rehabilitation, plagued by illness, nightmares, loneliness, and utter pessimism.
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Source: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
[ a saved copy of the same PDF can also be seen here ]

See also 13-camp version:

Abraham Landau was born in Wilchen, Poland in 1922. As a teenager, he, along with his family, was imprisoned in the Zagorow Ghetto. Taken away from his family, he was continuously transferred to 13 concentration and labor camps, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Bergen Belsen. He was the only survivor of his 95–member family.
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Article #3: "Abraham Landau - Jewish Federation of Greater New Bedford"

Another 13-camp version:

Murdered, but Never Forgotten – Holocaust Memorial
NewBefordGuide.com
By Sara Zatir
August 10, 2011

Standing near the corner of Rockdale Avenue and Hawthorn Street is the Holocaust Memorial, a stark reminder to the horrors taken place between the years 1939 and 1945. It was the dream of the late Abraham Landau, a Nazi concentration camp survivor, to see a statue erected in honor of the 6,000,000 Jews murdered. In 1998 his dream became a reality.

Abraham Landau was imprisoned as a teenager from 1940 to 1945 in 13 different labor and concentration camps. Upon release, he, and his wife Freida, moved to New Bedford in 1950. During his lifetime in New Bedford, Landau opened a small tailor shop on Pleasant Street, became a cantor like he was taught in his native Poland, visited local schools and talked about his wartime experiences, and became an active member of the Holocaust Committee. Landau died in 2000, however, his soon to be published book Branded on my Arm and in my Soul will be released this September.
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Article #4: "Murdered, but Never Forgotten – Holocaust Memorial"

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Here is a picture of Abe's Holocaust "Memorial Sculpture" in New Bedford, MA: