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[[File:Kovno Children.jpg|thumb|350px|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)]] | |||
'''Leib Zieman / Leibe Zismanas / Leo Zismas''' (M / Lithuania, 1928), Holocaust survivor | '''Leib Zieman / Leibe Zismanas / Leo Zismas''' (M / Lithuania, 1928), Holocaust survivor | ||
Latest revision as of 09:31, 29 May 2021
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)
Leib Zieman / Leibe Zismanas / Leo Zismas (M / Lithuania, 1928), Holocaust survivor
- One of the Kovno Boys, liberated at Gunskirchen
- KEYWORDS : <Kovno Ghetto> <Dachau> <Auschwitz> <Death March> <Mauthausen> <Death March> <Gunskirchen>
Biography
Leib Zieman was born June 3, 1928 in Kovno, Lithuania. He was forced to live in the Kovno Ghetto with his family. A plumber apprentice, 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 moved to the United States, where he was known as Leo Zisman.