Samuel Weinberger

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

Weinberger 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 Boys in the Third Group of the Boys, 1946.
List of the Boys in the Third Group of the Boys, 1946.
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Irene Feuerstein (née Weinberger)

Feuerstein was born Irena Weinberger on 27 December 1928 in a small village near Mukačevo in Czechoslovakia now part of Ukraine. 

Feuerstein 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.

Irene Weinberger
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Felix Weinberg

Weinberg was born in 1928 in Ústi nad Labem, Czechoslovakia which was part of the Sudetenland.

Weinberg 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 Felix Berger

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‘Harry’ Horst Weiler

Weiler was born to parents Moritz and Erna on 28 November 1931 in Dresden, Germany.

Weiler 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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Harry Wegner

Wegner was born on 20 October 1930 in Königsberg, Germany, which is now Kaliningrad in Russia.

Wegner 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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Janko Wanzinger

Wanzinger was born on 2 August 1922 in Chust, Czechoslovakia.

Wanzinger 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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Hersch Arek Warsznitzer

Warsznitzer was born in the Polish industrial city of Łódź in 1929.

Warznitzer 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 Walshaw

Walshaw was born Szmuel Warszauer was born on 16 October 1929 in Skarżysko, south-eastern Poland. 

Walshaw 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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Alec Ward

Ward was born Abraham Warsaw in 1927 to parents Zmul and Estera in Parysow near Lublin, Poland and lived in the village of Magnuszew.

Ward 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.

Photograph of Alec Ward in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.
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Joseph Waldmann

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

Waldman 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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