Minia Jay (née Munta)

Jay was born Minia Munter in Warta in Poland in 1925.

Jay was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls. 

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers. They had also survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

Photograph of Minia Jay in Windermere, 1945.
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Name:
Minia Jay (née Munta)
Also known as:
Minia Munta
Lone Child:
no
Hidden Child:
no
Deportation destination:
Auschwitz
Death March/Train:
Oederan to Theresienstadt
Liberation:
Theresienstadt Ghetto
Displaced Person Camp:
Terezín
Belgická Orphanage
Repatriation:
no
Return Home:
no
Arrival in UK:
August 1945
Group:
Point of Arrival:
Crosby-on-Eden, UK
Settled in:
UK
Testament:
US Shoah Foundation
Main Quilt:
Quilt Square:
Gallery:
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