Leon Weintraub
Author · 2 books
Leon Weintraub was born in Łódź in 1926. During the Second World War, he was imprisoned in the Litzmannstadt ghetto and in the concentration camps Auschwitz-Birkenau, Groß-Rosen, Flossenbürg and Offenburg, a subcamp of Natzweiler. After the war, he studied medicine in Göttingen and became a specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology at a clinic in Warsaw. In 1966, he was appointed senior physician at the district hospital in Otwock near Warsaw. In 1969, he emigrated to Sweden because of increasing antisemitism.