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Leib Langfus
1910–1944
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- writer
Leib Langfus, or also Leyb Langfus, was one of the victims of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Zigeunerlager AuschwitzDates unknown
- Zigeunerlager AuschwitzDates unknown
Biography
Leib Langfus, or also Leyb Langfus, was one of the victims of Auschwitz-Birkenau. A rabbi and Dayan (rabbinical judge) in Maków Mazowiecki, he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942, where he was forced to work as a Sonderkommando. After the war, a diary Langfus kept was unearthed in the grounds of Birkenau, which was published with several other diaries, under the title, The scrolls of Auschwitz. Between 1945 and 1980, a total of eight caches of documents were found buried in the grounds of Crematoria II and III in Auschwitz-Birkenau. The accounts written by Langfus are considered one of the most important historical documents dealing with subject of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz, and the Holocaust in general.
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