From The Star-Ledger (Nov. 11, 2007):
Landsberger was born in Prague and grew up in Vienna with his mother and stepfather. When Germany annexed Austria in 1938, he was sent to live with his father in England.
“The day Hitler marched into Vienna, my father wrote, ‘Send me the boy,'” Landsberger recalls. While he was in London, in another fateful break, his mother and stepfather were among the few Jews who were able to immigrate to New York. The 19-year-old Landsberger arrived in December 1939 as war descended on Britain.
While Landsberger and his fiancee, Anny Terkel of Vienna, got away, many of their relatives were lost in the Holocaust, including Anny’s father.
“We can’t forget that,” he says.