Landau, Lola (Eleonora)
- Born: Dec 3, 1892, Berlin, Germany
- Marriage (1): Wegner, Armin Theophil
- Marriage (2): Marck, Siegfried in 1914
- Died: Feb 3, 1990, Jerusalem, Israel at age 97
General Notes:
She was a writer. She was married first to Siegfried Marck a philosopher and Social Democrat from Breslau. They were married in 1914 and the marriage ended in 1920. Siegfried moved to the United States and was a professor of Philosophy at the Y MCA College in Chicago. He wrote several books on philosophy.
According to the dedication in the book Lola Landau: Leben und Werk, Lola had the following grandchildren: Ilan, Shlomit, John, Charlotte, Daniel, Alison, and Michael.
Lola Landua's second husband was the writer Armin Theophil Wegner who was not Jewish. They were married on November 9, 1920. Wegner opposed the Nazi regime and wrote an open letter to Adolf HItler as a protest. Since no newspaper would publis h his letter he delivered it to the Nazi pary headquarters in Munich asking them to forward it to Hitler. Soon he was arrested and tortured in the Columbia House prison in Berlin. He was sent to several concentration camps and prisons. Upon bei ng released he was able to escape to Italy. Under pressure from the Nazis he and Lola agreed to divorce. Wegner lived in Rome and died there on May 17, 1978. HIs second wife was Irene Kowaliska.
Lola and her children fled from Germany in 1936 and went to Palestine. She remained in Israel and died there on February 3, 1990.
IN 1967 Yad Vashem honored Armin T. Wegner as "Righteous among the Nations." The Yad Vashem website describes him as "the only German writer every to publicly raise his voice against the persecution of the Jews."
Lola married Armin Theophil Wegner. (Armin Theophil Wegner was born on Oct 16, 1886 and died on May 17, 1978 in Rome, Italy.)
Lola next married Siegfried Marck in 1914.
Noted events in their marriage were:
• Divorce: Divorce, 1920.
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