Franja Gross

Gross was born on 9 April 1926 in the industrial city of Łódź in Poland.

Gross 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 Franja Gross
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Alexander Gross

Gross was born in 1928 in the Palanka district of Munkács in the Carpathian Mountains, which was then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia. 

Gross 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.

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Jerry Parka

Parker was born Jurek Przenda  on 11 September 1930 in Poland.

Parker 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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Dora Prizant

Prizant was born on 20 December 1929 in Majdánka in the Carpathian Mountains which was then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Prizant 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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Mendel Pretter

Pretter was born on 7 October 1927 in Czemierniki, near Lublin in Poland.

Pretter 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 Mendel Pretter

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Szaja Popiel

Popiel was born on 7 October 1929 to parents Chaskiel and Chava Sara in Gorlice, south-eastern Poland.

Popiel 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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Benjamin Pinkas

Pinkas was born on 15 July 1929 in Novoselic, Czechoslovakia, now part of Ukraine.

Pinkas 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 the List of the Third Group of the Boys, 1946.
List of the Third Group of the Boys, 1946.
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Moshe Pinczewski

Pinczewski was born on 11 May 1930 in Wiskitki, east-central Poland.

Pinczewski 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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David Peterson

Peterson was born David Pietrkowski on 17 October 1927 in Ozorków, Poland.

Peterson 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 David Petersen

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Samuel Gross

Gross was born on 25 January 1926 in the village of Palanok near Mukačevo in the Carpathian Mountains, which was then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Gross 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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