Boris Barson

Visitation for Boris Barson, 92, of Schaumburg, IL, formerly Rolling Meadows, IL and Bowling Green, OH, will be held Friday, December 9, from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Ahlgrim Family Funeral Home, 201 N. Northwest Highway, Palatine.  The Funeral Service will begin, 10:00 a.m., Saturday, December 10, 2016, also at the funeral home.  The Interment will follow at St. Michael the Archangel Cemetery, Palatine.

Boris was born in Novocherkassk, Russia on August 14, 1924. In the summer of 1941, he was captured by the Nazis and sent to Germany to work in their slave labor camps.  Just before the end of the war he was sent to Dachau Concentration Camp.  In April of 1945, he was part of approximately 8,000 prisoners who were sent on a “death march” south of Munich through the Bavarian Mountains.  He was part of the 5,000 prisoners who survived the march and was ultimately picked up by members of the U.S. Army and placed in a U.S. Army hospital suffering from tuberculosis.  He was eventually reunited with his wife to be, Klara (Galina) Biriukowa.

In January of 1952, Boris, his wife, Klara, and 4-year-old daughter, Mila, immigrated to the United States, arriving in New York on the USNS General M.B. Stewart.  He and his wife spent the next fifty years residing in Bowling Green, Ohio where the First Presbyterian Church had sponsored their refugee resettlement.  In 2001, they moved to the Chicagoland area to be with their daughter and her family.

Boris was an avid fisherman, gardener and a talented “Do-It-Yourselfer”.  He and his wife enjoyed their trips to Ft. Myers, Florida.  He loved all animals, especially his daughter and son-in-law’s dog, Kobi.  He also enjoyed feeding all of the neighborhood birds and squirrels.

Beloved husband of Klara (Galina) Barson (nee Birukowa); loving father of Mila (Stephen) Bryan; loving and proud grandfather of Melissa (Will) Javellana; dear son of the late Ivan and Raisa (nee Goubenko) Chlebnikow.