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Portrait of the Ickovic family in Tacovo.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 15856
Portrait of the Ickovic family in Tacovo. Pictured from left to right are: Ludvic, Abraham, Gizella, Frimet, Sheindy and Malvina Ickovic.

Portrait of the Ickovic family in Tacovo.

Pictured from left to right are: Ludvic, Abraham, Gizella, Frimet, Sheindy and Malvina Ickovic.

Date
Circa 1930
Locale
Tacovo, [Transcarpathia; Ukraine] Czechoslovakia
Variant Locale
Tiacevo
Tecso
Tyachevo
Hungary
Ukraine
Tyachiv
Teutschau
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Czechoslovakia -- Family/Friends/Portraits
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Leo & Edith Cove

About This Photograph

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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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Leo & Edith Cove
 
Record last modified: 2004-04-05 00:00:00
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