Leon Weintraub

Leon Weintraub, born on 1 January 1926 in the Jewish slum in Lodz, was a prisoner in the Litzmannstadt ghetto and in the concentration camps Auschwitz-Birkenau, Groß-Rosen, Flossenbürg and Offenburg/external detachment of the Natzweiler concentration camp. After the war, he studied medicine in Göttingen and became a specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology at a clinic in Warsaw. In 1966, he became senior physician at the district hospital in Otwock near Warsaw until he was forced to emigrate to Sweden in 1969 due to rising anti-Semitism. As a contemporary witness, he has been campaigning for years for the memory of the Holocaust with lectures in schools and memorials.