Herman Stern

Stern was born on 15 September 1929 in Svalyava, a town in the Carpathian Mountains in eastern Czechoslovakia.

Stern 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 Stern family before World War II.
The Stern family before World War II.
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Moses Malinicky

Malinicky was born in 1930 in the Polish city of Piotrków.

Malinicky 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 Moishe Malenicky.

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Moshe Malenicky’s Great-Grandchildren Tell his Story

Irene Markovic

Irena Markovic was born on 6 January 1929 in Iršava in the Carpathian Mountains, which was then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia. 

Markovic 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 Irene Markovic, Brighton 1947.

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Herman Luger

Luger was born in 1927 in Ust-Čorna in the Carpathian mountains which were then the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia.

Luger 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 Luger Brothers, Millisle, c.1946.
Luger Brothers, Millisle, c.1946.

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Chaim Svimmer

Svimmer was born in 1930 in Mukačevo in the Carpathian Mountains, which was then in the most easterly part of Czechoslovakia. 

Svimmer 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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Chaim Lewkowicz

Lewkowicz was born in the Polish city of Piotrków in 1926.

Lewkowicz 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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Chaim Jakubovic

Jakubovic was born in 1929 in the town Sandrovo, Czechoslovakia, now Oleksandrivka, Ukraine.

Jakubovic 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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Chaim Aizen

Aizen was born in the pretty market town of Białobrzegi, 60km south of Warsaw in central Poland.

Aizen 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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Waltraut Butvenik (née Lossau)

Lossau was born in 1933 in Königsberg, Germany. 

She 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.

Waltraut Lossau

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Joseph Cederbaum

Cederbaum was born in the Polish industrial city of Łódź in 1929.

Cederbaum 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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