Josef Gerstein

Gerstein was born in the Polish capital Warsaw in 1934.

Gerstein 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 Josef Gerstein in Ilkley, Yorkshire in 2021.
Josef Gerstein in Ilkley, Yorkshire in 2021.

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Chaim Geller

Geller was born in the city of Rzeszów in south-eastern Poland on 20 September 1930. 

Geller 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.

Chaim Geller in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.

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Moses Geldman

Geldman was born in Łódź in Poland on 1 January 1930. 

Geldman 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.

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Susanne Galkacova

Galkacova was born in 1929 in Jasiňa in Czechoslovakia, which was then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Galkacova 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.

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If you have any information about Susanne Galkacova, please contact our Historical Advisor Rosie Whitehouse at rosiewhitehouse@45aid.org.

Joseph Fuchs

Fuchs was born on 23 February 1930 to parents Solomon and Ito in Romania.

Fuchs 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 also survived in hiding or as lone children.

Photograph of Josef Fuchs in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.

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Simon Frydman

Frydman was born in Czechoslovakia in 1929.

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.

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Nachman Frydman

Frydman was born in Zdunska Wola in Poland.

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.

Photograph of Norman (Nachman) Friedman
Norman (Nachman) Frydman

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Israel Frydman

Frydman was born in the Polish industrial city of Łódź in 1931.

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 the war for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers.

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Laib Frydenberg

Frydenberg was born in Dęblin in eastern Poland in 1930.

Frydenberg 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.

Photograph of Leo Frydenberg.

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Berek ‘Bernie’ Frydenberg

Frydenberg was born in Dęblin eastern Poland in 1925.

Frydenburg 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 Bernie Windermere 1945.

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