Lucille Eichengreen
Lucille Eichengreen (née Cecilie Landau; February 1, 1925 – February 7, 2020) was a survivor of the Łódź (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto and the Nazi German concentration camps of Auschwitz, Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen. She moved to the United States in 1946, married, had two sons and worked as an insurance agent. In 1994, she published From Ashes to Life: My Memories of the Holocaust. She frequently lectured on the Holocaust at libraries, schools and universities in the U.S. and Germany. She took part in a documentary from the University of Giessen on life in the Ghetto, for which she was awarded an honorary doctorate.
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Born | Cecilie Landau February 1, 1925 Hamburg, Germany |
Died | February 7, 2020 95) Oakland, California, U.S. | (aged
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Known for | Holocaust survivor |
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