Hersh Gordon was born to a Jewish family in Kovno, Lithuania, in 1925. After Germany occupied the city in 1941, Kovno's Jews were forced into a ghetto. In 1944, Hersh was deported to Auschwitz and then Dachau. He immigrated to the United States after the war.
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