Germany Key Places - '45 Aid Society

Members of the Boys were born in Germany.

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.

Germany Key Facts

Capital: Berlin

Population 1939: 79,375,281

Jewish Population in 1939: Approximately 214,000 to 215,000. Down from 1933 figures of 522,000 to 525,000

Present-day Population: About 83,500,000

Present-day Jewish Population: Approximately 125,000

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Good to Know: The borders of modern-day Germany are not the same as they were in the inter-war period.

The members of the Boys born in pre-war Germany came from the following places:

Members of the Boys born in pre-war Germany

Gisela Beamen (née Senkpiel)

Waltraut Butvenik (née Lossau)

Samuel Israel Felsenfeld

Tania Fink (née Joel)

Peter Harringer

Jurgen Haase

Manfred Heyman

Katherine Gittel Hwang (née Rowelski)

Alfred Hymans

Peter Ingleby-Dwane

Renata Jayson (née Lossau)

Gad Josef

Tanya Kessler (née Muench)

Rosa Neft (neé Turek)

Photograph of Rose Neft in Manchester in 1946.

Photograph of Hans Neumann in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.

Photograph of Manfred Heyman in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.

The Boys in Germany: Slave Labour & Liberation

Members of the Boys were held as slave labourers in concentration camps in Germany.

Many of the Boys endured death marches in Germany in the closing months of World War II.

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The Boys were held in the following concentration camps and their subcamps:

The Displaced Persons’ Camps

^{Map showing the DP Camps the Boys were cared for in.}

After World War II, Germany became a centre for Jewish refugees. Many of the members of the Boys were among them. To find out more click here.

The Boys were looked after in the Following Displaced Persons Camps in Germany:

Belsen-Hohne

Feldafing

St Otillien

Föhrenwald-Wolfratshausen

Kloster Indersdorf

The Second Group of the Boys

The Second Group of the Boys flew from Celle near Bergen-Belsen and Munich in Bavaria. They landed near Southampton in southern England. They were then taken to the Wintershill Hall hostel.

Photograph of Bergen-Belsen Memorial, Germany.

Photograph of Lugwiglust-Wöbbelin concentration camp Memorial, Germany.

Photograph of the Anhalter Bahnhof - Holocaust Deportation Site - in Berlin, Germany.

Photograph of the New Synagogue in Berlin, Germany.