Léon Lewkowicz (M / Poland, 1930), Holocaust survivor
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Portrait of three Jewish DP youth at the OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) children's home in Champigny-sur-Marne. Pictured from left to right are: Léon Lewkowicz, Johny Weisz and Ignatz Spett. USHMM Collections
Léon Lewkowicz (M / Poland, 1930), Holocaust survivor
- KEYWORDS : <Poland> <Buchenwald> <Liberation of Buchenwald> -- <France> <OSE Orphanage>
Biography
Léon Lewkowicz (Lewkowitz) was born 20 June 1930 in Poland.
He was one the child Holocaust survivors at Buchenwald and was among the 427 children brought to France from Buchenwald.
OSE Orphanage, France
Léon appears in a picture at the Ecouis children's home (around June 1945):
- Among those pictured are Zysio Abramovicz, Abram Czapnik, Albert Dymant, Joseph Fachler, Léon Frydman, Moritz Freilich, Idek Goldmann, Lejzor Grunberg, Israel Grojsman, Jakob Kapelusz, Mayer Kilsztok, Léon Lewkowicz, and Hersch Unger. USHMM Collections.
OSE Orphanage List
- #234 Léon Lewkowitz, Poland, 1930.