Student project for JFGNB "Propaganda: then and now", 2010

The papers contain vital documents (identification cards, processing cards, requests for birth certificates), compensation letters concerning Landau's manual labor at Auschwitz, pages from a photographic publication on camps Buchenwald, Dachau, and Buna, and various photographs of Landau with friends and family (c.1945-c.1996). Poetry, newspaper clippings, programs, transcripts to talks given by Landau to the community, press releases, along with the Official Resolutions and congratulations from the City of New Bedford concerning Landau's contributions to Holocaust and Jewish causes can all be found in the collection. Additionally, the collection contains correspondence, from dates 1949-1996, consisting of letters of appreciation from Jewish and civic organizations, letters from friends, family, and the community, and lastly, memorandums for and invitations to area events, especially those at which Landau was to speak. A large portion of the correspondence consists of thank-you letters written by elementary, middle, and high-school students, including faculty, from the greater southeastern Massachusetts region. A significant part of the collection are the memoirs of Abraham Landau, entitled "Branded on My Arm and In My Soul," originally collected as part of the Archives of the Center for Jewish Culture at University of Massachusetts (compiled by professors Yale Magrass and Robert Michael). The memoirs graphically describe Abe Landau’s childhood and experiences in the Zagorow ghetto, his five years spent in concentration, labor, and death camps, his experiences during the period immediately following liberation at Bergen-Belsen, and subsequent emigration to the United States with his wife Frieda.