Solomon Baicovitz collection

Identifier
irn40033
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2010.158
Dates
1 Jan 1986 - 31 Dec 1986
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Bernard Rice

Bernard Rice donated this testimony to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He received it from the Baicovitz family, who requested that he give the testimony to the Museum.

Scope and Content

Consists of typed testimony, 10 pages, written by Solomon Zalman Baicovitz, originally of Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania. He describes pre-war antisemitism, the establishment of the Kovno ghetto, and life in the ghetto, including witnessing several aktions. He created a hiding place and managed to hide his mother and daughter from an aktion in March 1944 before successfully placing his daughter in hiding outside the ghetto in May 1944. In July 1944, he was deported to Dachau. In April 1945, he was sent on a death march from which he escaped, and was liberated on April 29, 1945. He reunited with his wife, who survived concentration camps, and his daughter, who survived in hiding in Lithuania.

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