Yehuda Moses Ziegellaub, who was born in Galicia in 1888.
In 1907, he married Rachel Landsberg, whose family had also moved from Galicia to Cologne in the early twentieth century. In 1935, two of the couple’s children, Karl David Ziegellaub and his sister Paula, moved to Palestine. Another sister moved to Belgium with her husband, while the rest of the family remained in Cologne.
Yehuda Ziegellaub was deported to Zbaszyn, with another of his sons in October 1983. Their mother fled to Belgium with three additional children, to which Yehuda was able to escape with his son. The mother and one daughter died in Belgium. The father and three of his children were deported from Mechelen, Belgium to Auschwitz, where they were murdered.
The detailed story of the life of Karl David Ziegellaub (b. 1918) can be found in a 1993 book by Barbaba Becker-Jákli called Ich habe Köln doch so geliebt (“I so loved Cologne”), pp. 67–96.
Barbaba Becker-Jakli 1993 book Ich habe Köln doch so geliebt (“I so loved Cologne”) E 555 Biographical interview.
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The end of World War I, after serving in the Austrian army, Ziegellaub returned to Cologne and opened a prosperous shoe store.
Milestones in the life of Yehuda Moses Ziegellaub
Yehuda Moses Ziegellaub, who was born in Galicia in 1888, left his family as a young man to emigrate to the United States, but instead,
he moved to Cologne. And the end of World War I, after serving in the Austrian army, Ziegellaub returned to Cologne.
In 1935, two of the couple’s children, Karl David Ziegellaub and his sister Paula, moved to Palestine.
Another sister moved to Belgium with her husband, while the rest of the family remained in Cologne.
Yehuda Ziegellaub was deported to Zbaszyn, with another of his sons in October 1983.
Their mother fled to Belgium with three additional children, to which Yehuda was able to escape with his son. The mother and one daughter died in Belgium.
The father and three of his children were deported from Mechelen, Belgium to Auschwitz, where they were murdered.
