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Lucille Eichengreen (1925–2020)

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Eichengreen, Lucille
Rechtmäßiger Name
Eichengreen, Lucille
Andere Namen
Landau, Cecelia
Geburtstag
1925-02-11
Todestag
2020-02-07
Geschlecht
female
Nationalität
USA (naturalized)
Poland (passport)
Geburtsort
Hamburg, Germany
Sterbeort
Oakland, California, USA
Wohnorte
Hamburg, Germany
Lodz, Poland
Paris, France
Berkeley, California, USA
Berufe
insurance agent
memoirist
Holocaust survivor
Beziehungen
Eichengreen, Barry (son)
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Lucille Eichengreen was born Cecelia Landau in Hamburg, Germany, the eldest of two daughters of a Polish Jewish family. Her father Benjamin Landau was a wine merchant, and she had a comfortable childhood until the age of eight, when the Nazi regime came to power in 1933. She and her family were constantly under threat of persecution by the Nazis, as well as insults and assaults by the German population. After Germany invaded Poland in 1939 at the start of World War II, Benjamin Landau was arrested and deported to Poland as an enemy alien. After returning to Hamburg, he was arrested and murdered at Dachau concentration camp. At age 16, Lucille, along with her mother Sala and sister Karin, was deported to the Łódź Ghetto, where Sala starved to death in 1942. Karin was separated from her at age 11, deported to Chełmno extermination camp, and murdered. Lucille worked as a secretary until 1943, when she was deported to the death camp at Auschwitz. From there she was sent to the satellite camp Dessauer Ufer of KZ Neuengamme, where she was forced to heavy labor. In March 1945, ahead of the advancing Red Army, she and other prisoners were sent to Bergen-Belsen. She survived to be liberated by British troops in April, and spent a few months in the displaced persons camp working as a translator for the British. She helped identify 42 members of the SS, leading to their arrest and trial. After receiving death threats for her efforts, in 1946 she emigrated to the USA. There she married Dan Eichengreen, also from Hamburg, with whom she had two sons. In 1994, she published her memoir From Ashes to Life: My Memories of the Holocaust. She began speaking publicly on the Holocaust at schools, universities and at commemorative events. She also worked with the research unit for Holocaust literature at the Justus-Liebig-University on the history of the Łódź Ghetto.

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Lucille Eichengreen ha vissuto all’interno della più longeva tra le comunità ebraiche intrappolate nell’Europa nazista, quella del ghetto di Lodz, il secondo della Polonia dopo Varsavia, dominato dalla controversa figura di Chaim Rumkowski, rievocata anche da Primo Levi ne I sommersi e i salvati. (fonte: Google Books)
 
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MemorialeSardoShoah | May 25, 2020 |
I teach a course on the Holocaust in high school This is one of the required reads. Without a doubt, this is the student favorite every year, even though it is an adult book. The writing is plain and straight forward, yet chilling. They are even yet more amazed that the ending is "unsettled." Lucille did not find that lessons have been learned. A great book~
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Tess_W | 1 weitere Rezension | Dec 18, 2010 |
Lucille Eichengreen was born Cecelia Landau in Hamburg, Germany. From Ashes to Life chronicles her Holocaust experience from the first moments of foreboding as antisemitism becomes more prevalent in Germany until after the war when she serves as a valuable witness against those who had committed such atrocities and then moves on to begin a new life in America. Eichengreen's story is told in spare, almost childlike prose that serves to avoid any distraction from the horror of the events described.

Eichengreen chronicles her experience in the Lodz ghetto, where she lost what was left of her family, and in various concentration camps including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. However, what sets this memoir apart from the others I have read is her elaboration on what happened after her liberation from Bergen-Belsen. Eichengreen's memoir goes on to tell us about her role in bringing 42 SS members to trial for war crimes and her experience testifying against them in court. Eichengreen's bravery in facing her opressors in court is astonishing, and she helps us to see both how necessary she believed it to be, how strange it was to have roles reversed, and how painful it was for her to take on this role.

Additionally, Eichengreen tells of her new life in America and of a visit paid to Hamburg long after the end of the war. I was disappointed, as she was, by the relative lack of regret or remembrance she found in Germany and Poland. It was also shocking to see how the Jews that remained continued to conform to a persistent, if not always obvious, view of themselves as lesser humans that continued to exist in Germany and in Poland. Eichengreen spotlights what seems to be a reluctance to learn from history that is frightening.

Eichengreen's Holocaust experience but more importantly her emergence from the Holocaust to a new life is difficult but necessary reading. Her post-war experience includes some unforgettable scenes, including meeting a former kapo in a New York store. From Ashes to Life is important reading for those who would learn about the Holocaust and who would strive to eliminate those attitudes that could keep history from repeating itself.
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