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* One of the 131 [[Kovno Boys]]. Got separated from the te rest of the group at Auschwitz. | * One of the 131 [[Kovno Boys]]. Got separated from the te rest of the group at Auschwitz. | ||
* [[Kovno Ghetto]] [[Dachau]] [[Auschwitz]] [[Buchenwald]] [[Liberation of Buchenwald]] | |||
== USHMM Oral Interview == | == USHMM Oral Interview == | ||
Sol Shaya Lurie, born on April 11, 1930 in Kaunas, Lithuania, describes his family and early childhood; not knowing much about the situation with Hitler in Europe in the 1930s; traveling by horse and wagon toward Russia once the war began in 1939; returning to Kaunas because no one would take them in Russia; being forced to move into the Slobodka ghetto; being hidden near the ghetto in a farm by a German commandant during a round-up of children; meeting underground fighters but being too young to participate; the mass liquidation of the Slobodka ghetto in July 1944 and being forced onto a train with his family to Landsberg; his transport to Dachau, where he stayed for two weeks with several other children until they all went to Auschwitz-Birkenau; working on a farm near Auschwitz and managing to steal food; going on a death march from Auschwitz and American troops liberating him and others on April 11, 1945; discovering that his father and brother were alive after the war; immigrating to the United States on April 15, 1947; and dealing with his memories of his trauma after the war. | Sol Shaya Lurie, born on April 11, 1930 in Kaunas, Lithuania, describes his family and early childhood; not knowing much about the situation with Hitler in Europe in the 1930s; traveling by horse and wagon toward Russia once the war began in 1939; returning to Kaunas because no one would take them in Russia; being forced to move into the Slobodka ghetto; being hidden near the ghetto in a farm by a German commandant during a round-up of children; meeting underground fighters but being too young to participate; the mass liquidation of the Slobodka ghetto in July 1944 and being forced onto a train with his family to Landsberg; his transport to Dachau, where he stayed for two weeks with several other children until they all went to Auschwitz-Birkenau; working on a farm near Auschwitz and managing to steal food; going on a death march from Auschwitz and American troops liberating him and others on April 11, 1945; discovering that his father and brother were alive after the war; immigrating to the United States on April 15, 1947; and dealing with his memories of his trauma after the war. | ||
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Sol "Shaya" Lurie (M / Lithuania, 1930), Holocaust survivor.
- One of the 131 Kovno Boys. Got separated from the te rest of the group at Auschwitz.
- Kovno Ghetto Dachau Auschwitz Buchenwald Liberation of Buchenwald
USHMM Oral Interview
Sol Shaya Lurie, born on April 11, 1930 in Kaunas, Lithuania, describes his family and early childhood; not knowing much about the situation with Hitler in Europe in the 1930s; traveling by horse and wagon toward Russia once the war began in 1939; returning to Kaunas because no one would take them in Russia; being forced to move into the Slobodka ghetto; being hidden near the ghetto in a farm by a German commandant during a round-up of children; meeting underground fighters but being too young to participate; the mass liquidation of the Slobodka ghetto in July 1944 and being forced onto a train with his family to Landsberg; his transport to Dachau, where he stayed for two weeks with several other children until they all went to Auschwitz-Birkenau; working on a farm near Auschwitz and managing to steal food; going on a death march from Auschwitz and American troops liberating him and others on April 11, 1945; discovering that his father and brother were alive after the war; immigrating to the United States on April 15, 1947; and dealing with his memories of his trauma after the war.