Mordechai Levitan / Motel Levitanas (M / Lithuania, 1930), 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)
Mordechai Levitan / Motel Levitanas (M / Lithuania, 1930), Holocaust survivor
- One of the Kovno Boys, liberated at Gunskirchen
- KEYWORDS : <Kovno Ghetto> <Dachau> <Auschwitz> <Death March> <Mauthausen> <Death March> <Gunskirchen>
Biography
Mordechai Levitan was born April 21, 1930 in Kovno, Lithuania. He was forced to live in the Kovno Ghetto with his family. 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 where he learned that his father survived in Munich. They both emigrated to Israel in 1946 and lived in Ramat Hasharon.