Kalman Tsechenowski / Kalman Ciechanowski (M / Poland, 1929), Holocaust survivor
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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)
Kalman Tsechenowski / Kalman Ciechanowski (M / Poland, 1929), Holocaust survivor
- One of the Kovno Boys, liberated at Gunskirchen
- KEYWORDS : <Kovno Ghetto> <Dachau> <Auschwitz> <Death March> <Mauthausen> <Death March> <Gunskirchen>
Biography
Kalman Tsechenowski (Ciechanowski) was born Nov 1, 1929 in Bialystok, Poland. He was forced to live in the Kovno Ghetto. 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 (the only one of Polish origins). 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 Poland but no member of his family was still alive. He was adopted by a non-Jewish family in Poland and lost contact with the rest of the group.