Salo Landau

Salo Landau
CountryNetherlands
Born1 April 1903
Bochnia, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
DiedMarch 1944 (aged 40)
Świdnica County
Salomon Landau vs. Johannes Hendrik Otto count van den Bosch (1906-1994), c. 1930

Salo (Salomon) Landau (1 April 1903, Bochnia, Galicia, Austria-Hungary – March 1944,[1][2] Grodziszcze, Świdnica County, Poland) was a Dutch chess player, who died in a Nazi concentration camp.[3]

  1. ^ L. Landsberger, A. de Haas & K. Selowsky: Auschwitz . 's–Gravenhage, Nederlandsche Roode Kruis, 1947-1953: “All men transported in November 1943 are thought to have died in the neighbourhood of Auschwitz/Birkenau or the mining area of Janina and Furstengrube, not before 7 Dec. 1943 and not after 31 March 1944. If a date of death is unknown, the latest day is used of the month in which somebody was seen alive.”
  2. ^ Westerbork Cartotheek NIOD Amsterdam
  3. ^ "chessville.com". chessville.com. Retrieved 2014-08-01.