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Group portrait of members of an Hungarian Jewish labor battalion in Muckachevo.

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    Group portrait of members of an Hungarian Jewish labor battalion in Muckachevo.
    Group portrait of members of an Hungarian Jewish labor battalion in Muckachevo.

Among those pictured is Abraham Ickovic (top row, middle wearing a military uniform), and his younger brother, Itzhak Yaakov Ickovic (next to him on the left).  Few of these men survived the war.

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    Group portrait of members of an Hungarian Jewish labor battalion in Muckachevo.

    Among those pictured is Abraham Ickovic (top row, middle wearing a military uniform), and his younger brother, Itzhak Yaakov Ickovic (next to him on the left). Few of these men survived the war.
    Date
    August 1940
    Locale
    Mukachevo, [Ukraine; Transcarpathia] Czechoslovakia
    Variant Locale
    Munkacs
    Hungary
    Ukraine
    Mukaczewo
    Munkatsch
    Minkats
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Leo & Edith Cove

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    Photo Source
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Leo & Edith Cove

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    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.
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    2001-05-04 00:00:00
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