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Lucille Eichengreen (Cecilie Landau) was born on 1 February, 1925 in Hamburg, Germany, is an American memoirist (1925–2020). Discover Lucille Eichengreen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 95 years old?

Popular As Cecilie Landau
Occupation Writer
Age 95 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 1 February, 1925
Birthday 1 February
Birthplace Hamburg, Germany
Date of death 7 February, 2020
Died Place Oakland, California, U.S.
Nationality Germany

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1925

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.

Born Cecilie Landau in Hamburg, Germany, on February 1, 1925, she was the older of two daughters of the Polish-born wine merchant Benjamin Landau and his wife Sala (Sara), née Baumwollspinner.

1933

She described her childhood as "very nice, very comfortable" before Hitler came to power in 1933.

After that, the Jews became exposed to growing repressive measures by the Nazis as well as insults and assaults by the local population.

1939

After returning to Hamburg in the spring of 1939, Benjamin Landau was arrested by the Gestapo on September 1 of that year during the attack on Poland, as a "foreign enemy".

1940

He was first brought to a police jail in Fuhlsbüttel, then to Oranienburg concentration camp, and finally to Dachau concentration camp, where he was murdered on December 31, 1940.

1941

The family learned of his death only in February 1941, when the Gestapo brought his ashes, "in a cigar box with a rubber band", to their apartment, as Eichengreen recalls:

"Two Gestapo came to the house and threw them on the kitchen table. ... They only said 'Ashes, Benjamin Landau!' And walked out. They didn't talk."

On October 25, 1941, she was deported, at age 16, to the Łódź (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto with her mother and her younger sister Karin.

1942

In the ghetto, her mother starved to death, dying on July 13, 1942.

Lucille found work and survived, living under inhumane conditions.

Karin, whom she took care of, was separated from her at age eleven in September 1942, deported to Chełmno extermination camp and murdered.

Lucille was among female office workers who suffered sexual abuse from ghetto leader Chaim Rumkowski, of which she recalled: "I felt disgusted and I felt angry [...] but if I would have run away he would have had me deported."

Lucille worked as a secretary for the journalist and writer Oskar Singer.

1943

In 1943, she was hit on the left ear during an interrogation by the Nazi police after a denunciation, resulting in permanent deafness in that ear.

1944

In August 1944, she was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where she was deemed fit to work during the selection process.

A few weeks later, when she went through another selection process, concentration camp doctor Josef Mengele sent her to the satellite camp Dessauer Ufer of KZ Neuengamme, where she was forced to perform heavy labour, working in construction and removing detritus from bomb damage.

Later, she was assigned to office work, although she was still exposed to mistreatment from supervisors.

1945

In March 1945, she was deported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

1946

She moved to the United States in 1946, married, had two sons and worked as an insurance agent.

1947

Landau was the only member of her immediate family to survive the Holocaust, although it was not until 1947 that she was certain that her sister had died.

After the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen camp by the British army, she spent a few months in the camp for displaced persons in Bergen-Belsen, working as a translator for the British.

In cooperation with the British forces, she identified 40 members of the SS as having worked in the Neuengamme concentration camp, leading to their arrest and trial before a court.

After receiving death threats, she moved to the United States, where she married another Jewish emigrant from Hamburg, Dan Eichengreen.

According to her own account, she struggled to overcome the effects of the traumatic events of her youth and suffered from recurring nightmares.

1990

In the 1990s, Eichengreen began to write her memoirs for publication.

Her book ''From Ashes to Life.

1994

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.

My Memories of the Holocaust.'' was published in the United States in 1994.

After first visiting Germany, she lectured in schools, universities and at commemorative events.

She worked with the research unit for Holocaust literature at the University of Giessen on the chronicles of the Łódź ghetto, a text which gives an account of life in the ghetto.

1995

In 1995, she returned to Poland and Germany for the first time since 1945, including a visit to Hamburg after accepting an invitation by the Hamburg senate.

She also returned to Auschwitz and the former Łódź ghetto.

Eichengreen last lived in Oakland, California.

One of her two sons is the American economist Barry Eichengreen.

2007

For her involvement, she was awarded an honorary doctorate in the field of language, culture and literature from the university in May 2007.

2009

During a 2009 exhibition in Hamburg with the title ''In den Tod geschickt.

2020

She died on February 7, 2020, shortly after her 95th birthday.