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* One of the [[Kovno Boys]]. Got separated from the rest of the group at Auschwitz, being sent to [[Buchenwald]] | * One of the [[Kovno Boys]]. Got separated from the rest of the group at Auschwitz, being sent to [[Buchenwald]] | ||
* KEYWORDS : <[[Kovno Ghetto]]> <[[Dachau]]> <[[Auschwitz]]> <[[Buchenwald]]> <[[Liberation of Buchenwald]]> -- <OSE | * KEYWORDS : <[[Kovno Ghetto]]> <[[Dachau]]> <[[Auschwitz]]> <[[Buchenwald]]> <[[Liberation of Buchenwald]]> -- <OSE Orphanage> <United States> | ||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
Ralph Codikow, born in 1930, in Kaunas, Lithuania, describes his family; the German occupation of Lithuania in 1941 and his brother shortly thereafter being shot at the Seventh Fort; his and his mother’s confinement to the Kaunas ghetto, where his mother saved them by pretending to be married to a male friend; his mother using her husband’s Lithuanian military service papers to forgo deportation to the Ninth Fort; being saved by his work in a ceramics factory when the children’s Aktions were decreasing the number of children in the ghetto; his and his mother’s deportation to Stutthof, where they were separated; his transfer to Landsberg, a sub-camp of Dachau in Germany, and then to Dachau and Auschwitz-Birkenau; contracting measles but being considered healthy enough to go on a forced march to Buchenwald, a concentration camp in Germany, in the winter; his liberation at Buchenwald in April 1945; moving to France after the war; and immigrating to the United States in 1948. | Ralph Codikow, born in 1930, in Kaunas, Lithuania, describes his family; the German occupation of Lithuania in 1941 and his brother shortly thereafter being shot at the Seventh Fort; his and his mother’s confinement to the Kaunas ghetto, where his mother saved them by pretending to be married to a male friend; his mother using her husband’s Lithuanian military service papers to forgo deportation to the Ninth Fort; being saved by his work in a ceramics factory when the children’s Aktions were decreasing the number of children in the ghetto; his and his mother’s deportation to Stutthof, where they were separated; his transfer to Landsberg, a sub-camp of Dachau in Germany, and then to Dachau and Auschwitz-Birkenau; contracting measles but being considered healthy enough to go on a forced march to Buchenwald, a concentration camp in Germany, in the winter; his liberation at Buchenwald in April 1945; moving to France after the war; and immigrating to the United States in 1948. | ||
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[[Category:Holocaust Children, 1930 (subject)|1930 Codikow]] | [[Category:Holocaust Children, 1930 (subject)|1930 Codikow]] | ||
[[Category:Holocaust Children, Poland (subject)|1930 Codikow]] | |||
[[Category:Kovno Ghetto (subject)|1930 Codikow]] | [[Category:Kovno Ghetto (subject)|1930 Codikow]] |
Revision as of 17:47, 19 February 2021
Ralph Codikow (M / Lithuania, 1930), Holocaust survivor.
- One of the Kovno Boys. Got separated from the rest of the group at Auschwitz, being sent to Buchenwald
- KEYWORDS : <Kovno Ghetto> <Dachau> <Auschwitz> <Buchenwald> <Liberation of Buchenwald> -- <OSE Orphanage> <United States>
Biography
Ralph Codikow, born in 1930, in Kaunas, Lithuania, describes his family; the German occupation of Lithuania in 1941 and his brother shortly thereafter being shot at the Seventh Fort; his and his mother’s confinement to the Kaunas ghetto, where his mother saved them by pretending to be married to a male friend; his mother using her husband’s Lithuanian military service papers to forgo deportation to the Ninth Fort; being saved by his work in a ceramics factory when the children’s Aktions were decreasing the number of children in the ghetto; his and his mother’s deportation to Stutthof, where they were separated; his transfer to Landsberg, a sub-camp of Dachau in Germany, and then to Dachau and Auschwitz-Birkenau; contracting measles but being considered healthy enough to go on a forced march to Buchenwald, a concentration camp in Germany, in the winter; his liberation at Buchenwald in April 1945; moving to France after the war; and immigrating to the United States in 1948.