Members of the Boys were born in Austria.
The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after the war 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.
Austria Key Facts
Capital: Vienna
Population 1939: Approximately 6,653,000
Jewish Population in 1939: 57,000, down from about 192,000 at the time of the Anschluss (annexation) in 1938
Present-day Population: 9,180,000
Present-day Jewish Population: Approximately 10,000 to 15,000
Most of the Jews in pre-war Austria lived in the capital Vienna.
The Boys came from Eisenstadt, Graz and Vienna.
Members of the Boys were held in the Mauthausen concentration camp and its subcamps:
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