Malvina Schonfeld (neé Handelsmann)

Schonfeld was born Malvina Handelsmann on 28 December 1928 in Inice, Czechoslovakia.

Schonfeld 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 the List of the Fourth Group of the Boys in the London Metropolitan Archives.
The List of the Fourth Group of the Boys in the London Metropolitan Archives.
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Pinchas Gutter

Gutter was born in the Polish industrial city of Łódź in 1932.

Gutter 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 Pinchas Gutter in the Ascot hostel in 1946.
Pinchas Gutter in Ascot, 1946.

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Jacob Glicksohn

Glicksohn was born in Częstochowa in southern Poland in 1927.

Glicksohn 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.

Jacob Glicksohn in Windermere in 1945.
Jacob Glicksohn in Windermere in 1945.
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Herman Gancz

Gancz was born in the northern Transylvanian town of Viseul du Sus in Romania in 1928.

Gancz 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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Anton Gancz

Gancz was born in the northern Transylvanian town of Viseul du Sus in Romania in 1929.

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

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Harry Fox

Fox was born Chaim Fuks in 1930 in Tuszyn, a small town in western Poland not far from Łódź, where the Fuks family had lived there for generations.

Fox 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 L-R, Naphtali Rosenweig, unknown, Harry Fox
L-R, Naphtali Rosenweig, unknown, Harry Fox
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Gerson Frydman

Frydman was born in Przysucha in 1923.

Frydman 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 Jeff Frydman in Windermere in 1945.

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Fischel Kampel

Kampel was born in Bodzentyn in the Swietokrzyskie Mountains north east of Kielce in central Poland.

Kampel 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 Fischel Kampel in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.
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Jakob Fersztand

Fersztand was born in Kozienice, south of Warsaw in Poland, in 1930.

Fersztand 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 Jacob Fersztand in Ascot, 1945.

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Tyla Beeri (née Estrajcher)

Beeri was born Tyla Estrajcher in 1927 in Sosnowiec, an industrial city in Poland.

Beeri 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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