Lanka Ilkow

"Look what's going on. Keep up religion and education."

Name at birth

Lanka Moskovitz

Date of birth

03/29/1920

Where were you born?

Novoselau, Czechoslovakia

Name of father, occupation

Myer, Farmer, shoemaker

Maiden name of mother, occupation

Bluma, Farmwife

Immediate family (names, birth order)

Parents and four children.

How many in entire extended family?

Large extended family that lived near each other

Who survived the Holocaust?

Six cousins, one sister, and I

Lanka Ilkow was born in Novoseliza, Czechoslovakia (Ukraine) in 1920. Following the Hungarian annexation of parts of Slovakia, she and her family lived under Hungarian rule. In 1944, the family was shipped to a ghetto in Ungvar. From there they were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau where her father was gassed upon arrival. While in Auschwitz, Lanka's mother was later "selected" for extermination and Lanka and her sister were sent to the forced labor camp Hundsfeld, near Breslau. From there they were shipped to Gross Rosen, Mauthausen and finally, Bergen-Belsen, where the British army liberated them.

To learn more about this survivor, please visit

The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, University of Michigan-Dearborn

https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/ilkow/

Name of Ghetto(s)

Ungvar

Name of Concentration / Labor Camp(s)

Auschwitz Birkenau / Auschwitz (C Lager)

What DP Camp were you after the war?

Where did you go after being liberated?

I went to Sweden after the war with the Red Cross for recuperation.

When did you come to the United States?

December 1951

Where did you settle?