Abraham Barak (M / Lithuania, 1936), Holocaust survivor
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Abraham Barak / Erik Brick (M / Lithuania, 1936), Holocaust survivor
- KEYWORDS : <Lithuania> <Kovno Ghetto>
Biography
Erik Brick was born September 16, 1936 in Kovno, Lithuania, to Zvi Brick, an attorney, and his wife Leah, a teacher. After the Nazi occupation of the city in 1941, the family spent three years in the Kovno ghetto. At the end of the war, after wandering through Hungary, Austria, and Italy, Barak and his parents reached Rome, where they spent the next two years. In 1947, they received travel papers and immigrated to Palestine.
Barak was President of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1995 to 2006.