!!!Zelman, Leon

b. Szczekociny (Poland), June 12, 1928, journalist. Co-founder (1978) 
and head of the Jewish Welcome Service Vienna. After his liberation 
from the Mauthausen concentration camp, studied journalism at the 
University of Vienna; became one of the leading representatives of the 
Jewish Students' Association; co-founder of the magazine "Das 
Juedische Echo" in 1951. His project "Welcome to Vienna" enabled him 
to invite many Jewish emigrants to Vienna who had been forced to leave 
Austria in 1938.

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Work: Ein Leben nach dem Ueberleben, 1995 (autobiography, in 
cooperation with A. Thurnher).


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