Salomon Perl

Perl was born on 26 September 1928 in Cuhea, now Bogdan Voda, northern Romania.

Perl 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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Manci Shubi (née Perl)

Shubi was born Manci Perl in 1929 in Slatinske-Doly in the Carpathian Mountains which were then in the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Shubi 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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Josef Perl

Perl was born on 27 April 1930 in Veľky Bockov in the Carpathian Mountains, which was then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia. Part of the town was in Romania. Today Velky Bochoiv is Velykyi Bychkiv in Ukraine and Bocicoiul Mare in Romania.

Perl 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 Perl in Hove in 1954.

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Abraham Pawlowski

Pawlowski was born on 17 October 1931 in the industrial city of Łódź in Poland.

Pawlowski 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.

Abram Pawlowski in Windermere in 1945
Abram Pawlowski in Windermere in 1945
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Gita Papir

Papir was born in the Nelipeno in the Carpathian Mountains, which was then in the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Papir 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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Fishel Blumsztajn

Blumsztajn was born in 1929 in Piaseczno in central Poland.

Blumsztajn 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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Josef Fijalko

Fijalko was born in Poland, on 1 May 1932.

Fijalko 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 Fijalko in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany in 1945.

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Herman Feuerstein

Feuerstein was born on 14 November 1929 Mukačevo in Czechoslovakia, which was then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia. It is now Mukachevo in 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.

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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Isaac Ferstendig

Ferstendig was born in Radom in Poland in 1929.

Ferstendig 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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Samuel Israel Felsenfeld

Felsenfeld was born in Berlin in 1939.

Felsenfeld 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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