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Composite photograph of the Maccabi soccer team in the Foehrenwald DP camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 63642
Composite photograph of the Maccabi soccer team in the Foehrenwald DP camp.

Composite photograph of the Maccabi soccer team in the Foehrenwald DP camp.

Date
1947
Locale
Foehrenwald, [Bavaria; Wolfratshausen] Germany
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany: Major Centers -- Foehrenwald -- Recreation/Sports
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Irene Kane

About This Photograph

Biography
Irene Kane (born Irene Landau) is the daughter of Maximilian Landau and Felicia Gurewicz. She was born in 1930 in Warsaw where her father worked as an engineer. Maximilian was born on October 4, 1904 in Minsk, Russia to Edward Landau and Gustawa Kraushar Landau. In 1940 the family was forced into the Warsaw ghetto, where they worked for the Toebbens workshops sewing German military uniforms. In 1943 the family escaped from the ghetto and spent the next fifteen months on the Aryan side of Warsaw using false papers under the name Lewandowski. Maximilian's mother, Gustawa Landau, committed suicide in the ghetto. After the suppression of the Warsaw uprising in August 1944, Irene and her parents, together with all the Warsaw population, were evacuated from the city. They were shipped to Germany as Poles. Maximilian worked as an interpreter in a small Polish labor camp in Moers. After the US 6th Army liberated them, Maximilian Landau became a liaison officer for displaced persons searching for Jewish survivors. The family settled in the Foehrenwald displaced persons' camp where Maximilian helped organize Maccabi sport activities. In 1949 they immigrated to the United States.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Irene Kane
Source Record ID: Collections: 1999.211
 
Record last modified: 2008-09-03 00:00:00
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