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'''Ralph Codikow''' (M / Lithuania, 1930), Holocaust survivor.
'''Ralph Codikow''' (M / Lithuania, 1930-1995), Holocaust survivor.


* 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 School> <United States>
* 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]]

Latest revision as of 11:09, 30 May 2021

Ralph Codikow (M / Lithuania, 1930-1995), Holocaust survivor.

  • One of the Kovno Boys. Got separated from the rest of the group at Auschwitz, being sent to Buchenwald

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.

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