Pavel Graf

Graf was born on 16 March 1928 to parents Kamilla and Gustaf in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. 

Graf 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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Hanna Tanner (née Graf)

Graf was born on 1 September 1930 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, now the Slovak capital.

Graf 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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Abraham Grabia

Grabia was born to parents Zelig and Perla on 22 December 1923 in Łódź, Poland.

Grabia 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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Abraham Goldstein

Goldstein was born in Miedzyrzec Podalski, near Terespol in eastern Poland in 1928.

Goldstein 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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Desider ‘David’ Goldschild

Goldschild was born on 13 October 1929 in Chust in the Carpathian Mountains, which was then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia, now Ukraine. 

Goldschild 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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Lola Tarko (née Goldhersz)

Tarko was born Lola Goldhersz in 1929 in the Polish city of Piotrków.

Tarko 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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Harold Gold

Gold was born Hersch Goldceckier on 15 September 1929 in Opatów in southeastern Poland.

Gold 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 Gardner

Gardner was born Szmul Goldberg was born in Będzin in Poland in 1929.

Gardner 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.

Sam Gardner in Windermere 1945
Sam Gardner in Windermere 1945

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Henoch Glazier

Glazier was born in Poland in 1930.

Glazier 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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Katherine Gittel Hwang (née Rowelski)

Hwang was born Gitttel Rowelski in Berlin in Germany, in 1942.

Hwang 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.

Gittel Rowlevski in Windermere in 1945
Gittel Rowlevski in Windermere in 1945

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