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1. Hyikolone, Poland, birthplace of Chaim Brenner and Zysel Brenner.   
2. Schenig, Hungary, now Slovakia, birthplace of Elizabeth Wachsmann.
3. Antverpy, birthplace of Erwin Mauskopf.

We do not know the birthplaces of the following survivors:

Czechoslovakia

1. Aranka Cziment

Hungary

1. Yolande Fekete (later Elizabeth Itzinger).
2. Miklos Klein.
3. Sandor Klein

Poland

1. Abraham Brock
2. Abraham Feldman
3. Henoch ‘Henry’ Glazier
4. Pinchas Grossman
5. Josef Herzkowitz
6. Alfred Hymans
7. Ruzka Kalman (later Rozia Goldman)
8. Itzahak Korotnitsky
9. Szaja Kusnirowski
10. Jurek Przenda
11. Ruth Weissburg

Romania

1. Josef ‘Joine’ Fuchs
2. Sinada Grussman
3. Nathan Owichi (later Nathan Ovics)

USSR/ Stateless

1. Ignac Ajzykowicz

The city of Warsaw is of central importance in the history of the Holocaust.

Several of the Boys came from smaller towns and villages in the Warsawa Province, close to the city of Warsaw. The population of the Warsawa Province in the interwar period was almost 10% Jewish. Many of the Jews from their hometowns were moved into the Warsaw ghetto and the population of the region decreased sharply as a result of execution, extermination, and deportation.

After the outbreak of World War II, the region was captured by the USSR and transferred to Lithuanian rule. Many of the Jews in the area died in the Shoah by Bullets. Throughout 1942 to 1943, the Germans continued the systematic expulsion of the Jews from the area, including the expulsion of many to camps in Latvia and Estonia.

In September 1938, the Munich Agreement annexed Usti and the Sudeten Region into Nazi Germany. After the Sudeten crisis, 29% of Bohemian Jewry living in the Sudeten area became refugees. The remaining Jews were made to work as forced labourers. Ultimately, the Jews of Usti were all sent to the Theresienstadt ghetto and then to concentration or extermination camps.

In 1941, about 3,400 Jews lived in Szombathely, amounting to nearly 10% of the population. Jews were inducted into forced labour battalions in 1942. In May 1944, Jews were concentrated in the local ghettos. A few months later they were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in occupied Poland. About fifty Jews survived and returned after the Holocaust.

In the interwar period the villages of But, villages of Eszeny (present-day Esen), Szalóka (present-day Solovka) and Tiszaágtelek (present-day Tisaahtelek) in Szabolcs District were part of Czechoslovakia but was occupied by Hungary from 1938 to 1945. The Germans occupied Hungary in March 1944 and installed a puppet government which participated in the Holocaust. Today the villages of Esen,  Solovka and  Tisaahtelek are part of Ukraine.

Subcarpathian Ruthenia was a region in the easternmost part of Czechoslovakia which was annexed by Hungary in March 1939.

From 1939, laws were introduced banning Jews from attending school or from running businesses. In the summer of 1941, Hungarian authorities deported about 18,000 Jews from Subcarpathian Ruthenia. Those men who avoided deportation were conscripted into slave labour.

In April 1944, 17 main ghettos were set up in the region where 144,000 Jews were held until they were transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in occupied Poland between May and June 1944. 90,000 of the more than 100,000 Jews from the region were murdered in the Holocaust.

The vast majority of the third and fourth groups of the Boys came from Subcarpathian Ruthenia.

After Kristallnacht on 9 November 1938 all male Jews from Stettin were deported to the Oranienburg concentration camp. This was the first deportation of Jews from pre-war Nazi territory. In February 1940, the remaining 1,000 to 1,300 Jews of Stettin were deported to Lublin.

When the war began, the number of non-Germans in the city increased as slave workers were brought in. The first transports came from Bydgoszcz, Torun and Lodz. They were mainly forced to work in a synthetic silk factory near Stettin. During the war, 135 forced labour camps for slave workers were established in the city.

After the September 1938 Munich Agreement, Slovakia declared its autonomy from Czechoslovakia, but lost significant territory to Hungary in the First Vienna Award, signed in November.

In 1941, the Slovak government negotiated with Nazi Germany for the mass deportation of Jews to German-occupied Poland. Between March and October 1942, 58,000 Jews were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp and the Lublin District.

Out of 89,000 Jews in the country in 1940, around 69,000 were murdered in the Holocaust.

After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the Jewish population of Silesia was subjected to persecution.

Those sent to ghettos were expelled to concentration and forced labour camps from 1942. Auschwitz-Birkenau and Gross-Rosen concentration camps were established in Silesia. Between 5 May and 17 June 1942, 20,000 Silesian Jews were sent to Auschwitz.

After the war, Silesia became a major centre for the repatriation of Jews who had survived the Holocaust. By 1946, 70,000 Jewish survivors had returned to Silesia.