Lucille Eichengreen
German-born American Holocaust survivor, memoirist, speaker and insurance agent (1925-2020)
Lucille Eichengreen (née Cecilie Landau; February 1, 1925 – February 7, 2020)[1] was a German survivor of the Łódź Ghetto and the Nazi German concentration camps of Auschwitz, Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen.
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Born | Cecilie Landau February 1, 1925 Hamburg, Germany |
Died | February 7, 2020 Oakland, California, U.S. | (aged 95)
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Known for | Holocaust survivor |
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She moved to the United States. In 1994, she published From Ashes to Life: My Memories of the Holocaust. She later taught classes on the Holocaust at libraries, schools and universities in the United States and Germany. She took part in a documentary from the University of Giessen on life in the Łódź Ghetto.
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change- ↑ Lucille Eichengreen zum 95. Geburtstag ((in German) on her 95th birthday, KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme , February 1, 2020, adding on February 8 that she had died.)