Landau is showing the picture when he became a soldier at the age of 19, after surviving the Holocaust. (Photo by Benita Zhang)
Located in southern Poland, Brzesko is enjoying its peace with a population of 17 thousand. However, this small town was taken almost empty by the Nazis, with only a few left on 18th June, 1942. Around 4,000 from Brzesko were brought to the death camp and murdered by the gas chamber.
Dov Landau is one of the survivors. He had never thought it was the last time he saw his mother. She sent him to buy floor for cook, but when he came back, nothing was left but an empty bowl with unfinished dough on the roof. “This bowl remained the memory of her being taken by the Germans, together with thousands of people,” Landau said.
Therefore, at the age of 14, Landau lost his mother and a brother who lay in the bed because of a cold. “The grief was very heavy”, Landau said.
Benita Zhang 