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Leib Langfus
Polish rabbi · Germany · On the map · Writers · Lived 1910 to 1944 · aged 34
Leib Langfus, or also Leyb Langfus, was one of the victims of Auschwitz-Birkenau. A rabbi and Dayan in Maków Mazowiecki, he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942, where he was forced to work as a Sonderkommando.
Leib Langfus is read about 25 times a day, in 6 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 25 August 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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About this person
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 The accounts written by Langfus are considered one of the most important historical documents dealing with subject of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz, and the Holocaust in general.
