Jan 24, 2010 · NEW YORK (JTA) — Leon Weliczker Wells, a Holocaust survivor who testified at both the Nuremberg and Eichmann trials, has died. Wells died of cancer Dec. 19 at his home in Fort Lee, N.J., at the...

Jan 24, 2010 · Leon Weliczker Wells, a Holocaust survivor who testified at both the Nuremberg and Eichmann trials, has died. Wells died of cancer Dec. 19 at his home in Fort Lee, N.J., at the age of 84.

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Leon Weliczker (aka Leon Wells, 10 March 1925 – 19 Dec. 2009) was a Jew from Lviv who, after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, lived initially at the Lvov Ghetto, but at age 18 was transferred to the Janowska Forced-Labor Camp.

The story of Leon Wells reminds us of the individual nature of the Holocaust. As a young man who grew up in Lviv, he also ties the brutality of the event to specific geographic locations throughout the city, reminding us that the Holocaust was a spatial phenomenon.

Jan 1, 1995 · As a boy growing up in a small Jewish shtetl in southern Poland, Leon Wells was part of a large and warm family whose strong religious faith provided the focus for all aspects of life. Then came...

Polish-born American engineer and Holocaust survivor (1925-2009) Leon Weliczker Wells (Q1818916) From Wikidata. Jump to navigation Jump to search. ... Wells, Leon Weliczker, 1925-2009. 1 reference. imported from Wikimedia project. German Wikipedia. NL CR AUT ID. jo2014849724. 1 reference. VIAF ID. 115143306.

Interned for years by the Nazis in the Janowska slave labor camp in Lvov, Poland, Leon Wells was consigned to a Sonderkommando unit, “the Death Brigade,” tasked to obliterate with bonfire and a “bone-crushing machine” all traces of the daily murders perpetrated in that camp.

Feb 14, 2020 · The Janowska Road, by Leon Weliczker Wells, originally published in 1963, remains one of the most important accounts of Jewish life during the Holocaust. The book is the harrowing account of...