Jerzy Herszberg

Herszberg was born in Poznan in Poland in 1929.

Herszberg 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 Herzberg at his graduation in 1952.

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Yeno Fulop

Fulop was born in Baktalórántháza in northeastern Hungary in 1930.

Fulop 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 Yeno Fülöp in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.
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Issaak Pomerance

Pomerance was born in 1928 in Dzialoszyce, a small town 48km north of Kraków in southern Poland.

Pomerance 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 Isaac Pomerance

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Issaak Pomerance’s Great-Grandchildren Tell his Story:

Paul Gast

Gast was born Israel Gasfreund in the Polish industrial city of Łódź in 1926.

Gast 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 Paul Gast

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Zdenka Husserl

Husserl was born in Prague in Czechoslovakia in 1939.

Husserl 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 Zdenka Hurssel in the Weir Courtney hostel.

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Sala Newton-Katz (née Hochspiegel)

Newton-Katz was born Sala Hochspiegel was born in Wolonów in Poland in 1929.

Newton-Katz 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 Sala Newton-Katz 2019.

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Imre Hitter

Hitter was born to parents Ludovic and Erzeebet on 13 March 1927 in Oradea, north-western Romania.

Hitter 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 Imre Hitter in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945

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Jacob Hecht

Hecht was born on 14 May 1929 in in Romania.

Hecht 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 Jakob Hecht in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.

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Pinchas Hebel

Hebel was born in Czyzewo, a small town of about 5000 people in northern Poland, on 19 March 1927.

Hebel 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 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 arrival in the UK 1945. Pinchas Hebel is on the right

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Rela Hausman

Hausman was born on 5 October 1930 in Sieradz, central Poland.

Hausman 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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