Sol Lurie

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.

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.