Felix Landau

Felix Landau
Born	(1910-05-21)May 21, 1910 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	April 20, 1983(1983-04-20) (aged 72) Vienna, Austria
Occupation	SS Hauptscharführer
Known for	Documenting his activities in the Einsatzkommando in his diary
Criminal status	Deceased
Conviction(s)	Murder
Criminal penalty	Life imprisonment with hard labour

Felix Landau (May 21, 1910 – April 20, 1983) was an SS Hauptscharführer, a member of an Einsatzkommando during World War II, based first in Lwów, Poland (today Lviv, Ukraine), and later in Drohobycz. Landau was a participant in numerous mass shooting of Galician Jews. He is known for his daily diary and for temporarily sparing the life of the Jewish/Polish artist Bruno Schulz in 1942. Landau liked Schulz's art and supplied him with protection and extra food. In return, he ordered the artist to paint a set of murals for his young son's bedroom, depicting scenes from the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Landau also was the SS officer assigned to watch over Maria Altmann, the subject of the 2015 film Woman in Gold.^[1]