The document summarizes the history of the Landau family who lived in Przyrów and Częstochowa, Poland. It describes how the family originated from Landau, Germany and discusses the lives and occupations of several generations, including those who had a cutlery factory. It notes that in 1942, most of the family was taken by the Gestapo, with some shot and others sent to camps, though a few survived. The document provides biographical details on some family members and their fates during the Holocaust.

1. The Landau family of
Częstochowa
Elizabeth Fiszer

2. My great-grandparents' surnames, just like other
Jewish surnames, derive from the locations or
regions where my ancestors lived. Landau was a
tiny town in Bawaria, in south-east Germany.

3. My greay-grandfather, Dawid Hirsh Zwi Landau,
was born in Przyrów and lived there all his life. His
wife, Dobra Jentel Krymołowska, came from Łódź.
The family led very religious life. They had a
cutlery factory.

4. In 1920's they gradually left Przyrów for
Częstochowa, to where they also moved the
factory. The firstborn son, Jakow Shimon, ws
already hepling his father to run and develop the
business. After the death of his father, the
responsibility of running the whole factory felt to
him.

5. The second son was Pinhas, marriaged with Gela
Fiszman. He left for Częstochowa, in order to
ascertain the possibility of building a factory there.
The lived ina tenement on Krakowska Street,
where Pinhas built a factory.
The whole family were able to live there.

6. Krakowska Street nowadays

7. The home possessed warm atmosphere.
Grandma Gela had problems with her health and
my grandparents would travel to Karlovy Vary.
Grandma went there for her health, but grandpa
visited industrial plants. He ordered machines and
imported them onto Poland to his factory and to
the BRA-LAND factory, where he was a
shareholder.

9. In 1942, the Gestapo took the whole family –
some to be shot and the rest to camps. Szaja and
Ester, the Pinhas' children, despite being tragically
weak, survived. Szaja managed to get to
Palestine and Ester was hiding for the duration of
the War in the suburbs of Częstochowa.

10. Dobra and Dawid Hirsh's middle daughterwas
Tuba Landau. She was expceptionally talented,
but she didn't complete her studies.
During the War, the entire family perished –
Tabua, her husband and both sons.

11. The youngest of Dobra and Dawid Landau's
childer was Hil. He began to work in the family
business producing cutlery and padlocks. The
factory had an attic and a huge chimney which,
during the War, served as a hiding place for many
people.

13. Hil's youngest sister, Bronia Landau with her
husband was active in family life. She began
working in the family business. At the beginning of
the World War II, when Germans threw Jews out
of their homes, a signficant part of the family
came to Częstochowa and suoght shelter in the
home of Bronia and her husband.

14. Bronia survived the War, cared by a Polish family.
She returned to Chęstochowa and tried to work in
a factory. Troubled by the Finance Department,
she cound not see any possibility for the running
of a factory and letf overseas.
Bronia's husband perished during the War.

15. Rojsa Landau was the next eldest daughter of
Dobra and Hirsh Landau. She had an ability to
quickly learn foreign languages. It was useful
during the War. She perished in unclear
circumstances.

16. Haja Ester Landau was also a daughter od Dobra
and Hirdh and mother if the famous
haematologist, Prof. Luba Judkiewicz. She stayed
in Łódź untilthe outbreak of the War.

17. Sheindel Landau was the eighth child of Dobra
and Hirsh. After her mariagge, She left for
Germany which they left after the rise of fascism.
Thet returned once to Poland in order to say
goodbay and then left for Palestine.

18. Two representatives of the Landau family
currently live in Częstochowa.

19. Based on the book ,,The Jews of Częstochowa”
Complied by Klaudia Konfederak
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