Peter Landé was born in Germany, but came to the United States as a young child.  He joined the Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer in 1956 and served in diplomatic and consular assignments in New Zealand, India, Japan, Egypt, Germany and Canada, as well as in senior positions in the Department of State.  He retired in 1988 as United States Economic Minister in Cairo.

Since his retirement Mr. Landé has been active in genealogy research, writing and lecturing, with special emphasis on Holocaust records.  He has travelled widely in Europe collecting lists of victims and survivors and speaking to groups in the United States, Australia, Canada and several European countries.  He has written numerous articles identifying sources of information for Holocaust name lists.

 As a volunteer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) he has  participated in a project to identify and collect in a single computerized database the names of all Holocaust victims and survivors, Jewish and non-Jewish, and to develop an inventory of thousands of sources of information on Holocaust victims and survivors. He was active in the ultimately successful international effort to open for public access the records of the Red Cross International Tracing Service, the world’s largest collection of Holocaust records, with information on an estimated 17 million persons.

Peter W. Landé,  3002 Ordway Street N.W.,  Washington, DC 20008-3254
212.3632.8878 (phone)  pdlande@starpower.net