Elizier Greiss

Pictured in the center is Max Wolfson, an American Jewish liberator. The six children are (from the right to the left): Leib Zieman, Kalman Tsechenowski, Meir Gecht, Elizier Greiss, Mordechai Levitan, and Daniel Lebanovski. (@USHMM)

Elizier Greiss / Leijzer Greis (M / Lithuania, 1929), Holocaust survivor

• One of the Kovno Boys, liberated at Gunskirchen
• KEYWORDS : <Kovno Ghetto> <Dachau> <Auschwitz> <Death March> <Mauthausen> <Death March> <Gunskirchen>

Biography

Elizier Greiss was born January 20, 1929 in Kovno, Lithuania. He was forced to live in the Kovno Ghetto with his family. An apprentice in a saw mill, after the liquidation of the ghetto in 1944 he was sent to Dachau. There he was one of the 131 Kovno Boys who were sent to Auschwitz. With a death march in January 1945 he arrived in Mauthausen on Jan 30, 1945 and then transferred to Gunskirchen. He was part of a group of 37 child survivors from Kovno liberated at Gunskirchen. After the war, he went back to Lithuania with Meir Gecht and reunited with his father in Vilna. He became a famous sport reporter and author in the Soviet Union.