Ludvic Ickovic (right) poses with his friend Harry Rot, in the yard of the Ickovic home in Tacovo. Soon after Harry Rot was deported to his death in Auschwitz.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 14800

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Caption: Ludvic Ickovic (right) poses with his friend Harry Rot, in the yard of the Ickovic home in Tacovo. Soon after Harry Rot was deported to his death in Auschwitz.
Date: March 1944
Locale: Tacovo, [Transcarpathia; Ukraine] Czechoslovakia
Variant Locale: Tiacevo
Tecso
Tyachevo
Hungary
Ukraine
Tyachiv
Teutschau
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Leo & Edith Cove

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Leo & Edith Cove

Keyword: BADGES BADGES (STAR OF DAVID) FENCES GHETTO/OCCUPATION JEWS (CZECH) JEWS (HUNGARIAN) JEWS (SLOVAK) JEWS (TRANSCARPATHIAN) TECSO
Photo Designation: NAZI SATELLITE STATES -- Hungary -- JEWS -- Daily Life/Families/Weddings -- After the German Occupation

Biography: Leo Cove (born Ludvic Ickovic) is the son of Abraham and Gizella (Waldman) Ickovic. Ludvic was raised in Tacovo (Transcarpathia), where his father owned the Pansky a Damsky Krejci garment factory. Ludvic had three sisters: Frimet, Sheindy and Malvina. In the years immediately preceding the German occupation of Hungary, Ludvic was employed in his father's factory. Abraham Ickovic was deported to Auschwitz in 1944. He survived until the camp was evacuated in January 1945, but was shot to death during the death march to Germany.