Dr. Leib Landan, prominent Jewish leader in Poland, has been executed by the Gestapo in Low, the Polish Government-in-Exile reported today.
The last report concerning Dr. Landan was received in 1939 when the Soviet authorities offered him the post of commissar of the city of Lwow and he rejected the offer. He remained in Lwow after Russian Army withdrew from the city, and was active in rendering all possible relief to the starving Jews in the Lwow ghetto which was established by the Nazis.
Dr. Landau played an important role in Jewish life in pre-war Poland. He was the chief attorney for the defense in the case of Stanislaw Steiger, a young Polish Jew who was accused in 1925 of throwing a bomb at Polish President Wojciewchowski. A number of Jewish communal leaders were arrested at that time in Lwow in connection with the steiger case. It was later established that the bomb was thrown by members of a Ukrainian terrorist organization which opposed the Polish regime, Steiger and the others were acquitted.
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