Maurice Diamond

Diamond was born Moses Kadzidlo in Radomsko in Poland in 1927.

Diamond 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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Kiva Kadyshewitz

Kadyshewitz was born in 1931 in Starachowice in the Radom district in east-central Poland.

Kadyshewitz 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.

Kiva Kadyshewitz 1946
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Chaim Judkiewicz

Judkiewicz was born on 7 October 1929 in the Polish city of Piotrków.

Judkiewicz 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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Solly Irving

Irving was born Szlama Judenschneider in Ryki in central Poland in 1930.

Irving 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.

Solly Irving
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Josefina Steinberg

Steinberg was born in 1930 in Nizni Verecky in the Carpathian Mountains which were then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Steinberg 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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Marketa Josef

Josef was born in 1929 in Mukačevo in the Carpathian Mountains, which was then in the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Josef 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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Joe Stone

Stone was born Josef Himmelstein in 1930 in Iwieniec, Poland, 88km west of Minsk, which is today Ivyanets in Belarus.

Stone 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 Jonisz

Jonisz was born in 1927 in Serock, north of the Polish capital, Warsaw.
Jonisz 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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John Fox

Fox was born Jonah Fuks in 1928 in Tuszyn, a small town in western Poland not far from Lodz, where the Fuks family had lived there for generations.

Fox 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 Johnny Fox.

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Tania Fink (née Joel)

Fink was born Tanya Joel in Berlin, Germany on 29 September 1938.

Fink 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.

Tania Fink after arriving in London.
Tania Fink after arriving in London.
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