Hans Neumann

Neumann was born in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, Germany on 8 August 1929. 

Neumann 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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Natan Rolnik

Natan Rolnik was born in 1932 in Belzyce, Poland but grew up in Kraśnik in eastern Poland not far from Lublin. 

Rolnik 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, survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

Photograph of Natan Rolnik in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany 1945.
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Bernat Nasch

Nasch was born in Nowe Zamky, Czechoslovakia, in modern-day Slovakia, on 7 April 1930. 

Nasch 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 Bernat Nasch in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.
Bernat Nasch in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.

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Minia Jay (née Munta)

Jay was born Minia Munter in Warta in Poland in 1925.

Jay 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 Minia Jay in Windermere, 1945.
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Tibor Sands

Sands was born Tibor Munkacsy on 9 December 1925 in Budapest, Hungary.

Sands 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 Tibor Sands in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany 1945.

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Moniek Goldberg

Goldberg was born in 1928 in Glowaczow, a small town in east central Poland, south of the capital Warsaw.

Goldberg 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 Moniek Goldberg

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Bela Meisels

Meisels was born to parents Moses and Ida on 12 May 1929 in Satu-Mare, Romania.

Meisels 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, survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

Photograph of Bela Meisels in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.

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Bruno Meier

Meier was born in Gambach, north of Frankfurt in Germany on 16 October 1929.

Meier 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 Bruno Meier in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.
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Vilma Marmelsteinova

Marmelsteinova was born in 1928 in Mukačevo in the Carpathian Mountains, which was then in the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Marmelsteinova 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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Manfred Heyman

Manfred Heyman 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, survived World War II in hiding or as lone children

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

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