Otto Schwartz

Schwartz was born to parents Ignac and Regina on 24 November 1928 in Nyirbator, eastern Hungary.

Schwartz 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 Otto Schwartz in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany 1945.
Otto Schwartz in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany 1945.

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Emil Schwartz

Schwartz was born in 1930 in Mukačevo in the Carpathian Mountains, which was then in the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Schwartz 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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Sam Freiman

Freiman was born on 1 January 1926 in Jeziorna, a spa resort near Warsaw in Poland.  

Freiman 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 Sam Freiman at home in 2018.

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Jerzy Poznanski

Poznanski was born in Praszka in southern Poland in 1930.

Poznanski 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 Jerzy Poznanski.

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Ivor Perl

Perl was born Izak Perlmutter on 4 February 1932 in Mako, Hungary.

Perl 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 Ivor Perl's identity documents, American occupied sector of Germany 1945.
Ivor Perl’s identity documents, American occupied sector of Germany 1945.

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Perez Lev

Lev was born Perez Lewkowicz near Łódź, Poland on 9 September 1927.

Lev 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.

Perez Lev in 2019.
Perez Lev in 2019.
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Josef Pakula

Pakula was born to parents Juda and Lola on 4 February 1928 in Chorzow, a village in the district of Łódź, Poland.

Pakula 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.

Josef Pakula
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Harry Olmer

Olmer was born in Sosnowiec, Poland on 15 November 1927.

Olmer 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 Harry Olmer in Windermere in 1945.
Harry Olmer in Windermere, 1945.
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Samuel Oliner

Oliner was born to parents Aron and Jaffa on 10 March 1930 in Gorlice, in south-western Poland (renamed Zgorzelec, Poland in 1948).

Oliner 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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Joseph Neumark

Neumark was born in the Polish town of Praszka in 1929.

Praska 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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