Bencel Ben-Zion Lan

(divon) Birth record found on Litvaksig
LAY, Bencel born 6/4/1899 8 Iyar in Vilijampole <<< note transcription error in last name
Father: Zundel son of Abram Yudel from Vilijampole
Mother: Dusha daughter of Shmuel Noson

(divon:) Served in army and reserve

(divon:) Lithuania internal passport # 39251, issued Feb 12, 1924 says: "occupation: baker"

(divon jan 2010) from jewishgen.org:
Marriage record, Kaunas 4/4/1924
LAN Bentsel son of Zundel and Dusha from Slabada born 1899, a baker
BERMAN Mera Leya, daughter of Gershon and Sara Dobe from Slabada, born 1897, a seamstress
Rabbi: Z.MARGOLIS Witnesses: J.KRASNOSELSKIS, B.JAKUBAS

Zuni Lan: Bencel survived Dacheu where Zundel perished

(divon:) Name appears on Dachau concentration camp records (found on jewishgen.org): Birth: 6/4/1900, Kauen (Kaunas), prisoner number 82253, category: protective custody - Lithuanian Jew, arrived 15/7/1944, liberated at end of war - departed to Kaufering

(divon:) Name also appears on the Sharit haPlatah records (searchable on jewishgen.org), that was published in 1946 by the "Central Committee of Jews in Bavaria", in Munich, Germany. The frontispiece says, "an extensive list of survivors of Nazi tyranny published so that the lost may be found and the dead brought back to life." The book contains the names of 61,387 Jews who survived the Holocaust.

(michael lan:) my father and Moische Lan set free at 02.05. 1945 in Feldafingen near Munich.