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Immigrant of the Day: Lucille Eichengreen (Germany)

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Ashes Lucille Eichengreen (born as Cecelia Landau 1925 in Hamburg, Germany) is a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz, Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen. She moved to the United States in 1946, married, had two sons and worked as an insurance agent. One of her sons is the economist Barry Eichengreen.

In 1994, Lucille Eichengreen published From Ashes to Life: My Memories of the Holocaust. For excerprts, click here.  She frequently lectures on the Holocaust at libraries, schools, and universities in the United States and Germany.

KJ