Mirjam Wheeler (née Stern)

Wheeler was born Mirjam Stern was in August of either 1936 or 1937 in Kurima, Czechoslovakia.

She 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.

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Name:

Mirjam Wheeler (née Stern)

Also known as:

Mirjam Stern

Birthplace:

Slovakia, Czechoslovakia

Current Name:

Kurima, Slovakia

Lone Child:

Hidden Child:

yes

Repatriation:

Return Home:

yes

Arrival in UK:

March 1946

Group:

The third group

Settled in:

USA

Gallery:

Photograph of the List of the Boys in the Third Group of the Boys, 1946.